US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at advancing the deep-sea mining industry. This directive mandates the US government to accelerate the review of seabed mining ...

A news article over the weekend appears to have highlighted the potentially massive opportunity for deep sea mining. On April ...

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Industrial mining the seabed has long been an idea but has yet to become a reality. For decades, there’s been a de facto ban on commercial seabed mining by the International Seabed Authority, a ...

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting.These changes now implicate the international framework for governing ...

The former Cook Islands prime minister and Pacific Islands Forum head has joined the board of the deep sea mining company ...

Opponents of DSM, who include scientists, conservationists, oceanographers, nation states, Indigenous peoples and most of ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

Greenpeace seabed mining campaigner Juressa Lee says, “For nearly a decade, Trans-Tasman Resources has failed to get its ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.