Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, ...

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

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns unilateral action would violate international law and undermine multilateral ...

Nobody knows for sure, since deep-sea mining has never been done at commercial ... the exploration for seafloor minerals, including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though ...

Nobody knows for sure, since deep-sea mining has never been done at commercial ... the exploration for seafloor minerals, including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though ...