An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

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 ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

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 ...

Several countries united with campaign groups on Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea mining at a meeting on the issue in Jamaica. Members of the ...

Executive order under review would bypass UN-backed body International Seabed Authority has yet to set rules NOAA would oversee permitting for deep-sea mining March 31 (Reuters) - The White House ...

The push for clean energy is driving interest in deep-sea mining, a controversial method of extracting critical metals from the ocean floor. These polymetallic nodules contain key ingredients for ...

A company which had dreams of becoming the world’s largest deep sea mining company has declared bankruptcy. Norwegian company, Loke Marine Minerals, aimed to hold licences in the Pacific and the ...

The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping mineral deposits from the ocean floor, often referred to as ...

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, ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals on the ocean's floor and let miners bypass the ISA and seek permitting ...