It’s been nearly five months since the Norwegian government paused its controversial plans to launch deep-sea mining in ...

Two books explore the global race for important mineral resources. Many of the products and processes needed to decarbonize economies use scarce minerals, such as lithium in electric batteries and ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

If as critics point out, the environmental impact assessment study was commissioned only after the auction process got ...

Rare earths, on the other hand, have narrower supply chains and are often more difficult to extract, requiring more ...

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

China is retaliating against U.S. tariffs by restricting exports of rare earth minerals. Minerals expert Gracelin Baskaran ...

The legal argument that the U.S. retains rights to harvest minerals under domestic law was pioneered by the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Groves. Notably, TMC officials referenced Groves’ analysis in ...

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The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...