Cook Islands officials yesterday said they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island ...

Multiple cooperation deals signed as Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown talk in Harbin, CCTV reports.

First Solar agreed to refrain from using minerals mined from the deep sea, an early win for shareholder environmental ...

But it may in future open up the Scandinavian country's waters to deep-sea mining, a practice controversial for its potential impact on vulnerable marine ecosystems. Besides the risk of chemical ...

New Zealand backed a ban on deep-sea mining under former progressive prime ... copper and nickel—metals used to build batteries for electric vehicles. But the industry faces sharp criticism ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

New Zealand is considering withdrawing its support for an international ban on deep-sea mining, the country's resources minister told AFP on Tuesday. "We're talking about this with our foreign affairs ...