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The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...
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In 1979, a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment in the Pacific Altered the Seafloor—44 Years Later, Its Environmental Impact is Still Revealing ItselfIn 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...
By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...
Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...
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As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country ActsIn 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry ... But key issues in the draft rulebook remain unresolved ...
The licences are held by UKSR, which was acquired in 2023 by Norway's Loke Marine Minerals from US defense contractor ...
“The Metals Company is promising regulatory certainty in a regulatory vacuum,” said Bobbi-Jo Dobush, ocean conservation policy expert and author of Deep Sea Mining Isn’t Worth the Risk. “The only ...
Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international ... potential environmental impacts. In recent years, as global demand for ...
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