“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

The move would enable miners to bypass the ISA and obtain permits from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea ...

“Deep-sea mining, that’s like you’re digging up the grave of my ancestors,” he said. Yet despite this cultural tie to the ocean, some Pacific countries like Nauru and the Cook Islands are ...

Governments most interested in developing deep-sea mining industries in their waters include the Cook Islands, Norway and Japan. The 36-member ISA council met again in Kingston, Jamaica ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea ...

Governments most interested in developing deep-sea mining industries in their waters include the Cook Islands, Norway and Japan. The 36-member ISA council met again in Kingston, Jamaica ...