The unusual element of Josephine Rowe’s short novel Little World is that the heroine remains utterly impassive throughout the ...

The US under Donald Trump sees the ocean floor as a new frontier, making the Pacific Ocean’s mineral-rich seabed a new ...

The intrepid German traveller completed his impressive goal in Palau, an island nation in the Western Pacific Ocean ... beaches and there's just a phosphate mine in the centre.

After the decline of the slave trade, Klein Curaçao served many purposes, including phosphate mining since the late 19th century. Now, the only frequenters of the island are miners, fishermen and ...

Politically, the island is not independent, as it is part of the Pacific Ocean state of the Republic of Kiribati ... the islanders huddle on scraps of soil preserved untouched by phosphate mining.

It is raising concerns about environmental safety. At the center of the controversy is a former phosphate mine in Dover. It is also home to a superfund site. Back in 2010, Hillsborough County ...

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

South African National Parks has denied Kropz Plc’s (LON: KRPZ) request to extend its phosphate mining operations into the West Coast National Park, citing legal prohibitions on mining within ...

A Canadian mining company has been boosted by US President Donald Trump in its push to exploit the ocean floor for minerals such as lithium that are critical to the world’s clean energy transition.