The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining ... Centre analyzed the Clarion Clipperton Zone, a mineral-rich area of the ocean floor, and found that a test mining experiment from ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton ... sea level where light cannot reach. While this ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is ...

Around ninety percent of life forms in the deep sea have yet to be named by humans, British director Eleanor Mortimer informs us in the course of her documentary “How Deep Is Your Love.” It’s a ...

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography at the University of Hawaii Manoa who studies zooplankton ecology in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a region of the Pacific ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

In 1990, the Clean Air Act was updated by Congress to eliminate acid rain by reducing power plant pollution. Unfortunately, ...