Critical minerals have firmly entered geopolitics, whether through Trump's tariff wars, China's export bans, or the EU's ...

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Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Exploration for deep-sea minerals in the Clarion Clipperton Zone threatens to disrupt an unexpectedly rich ecosystem of whales and dolphins. New studies have detected endangered species in the area ...

A group of leading ocean and climate scientists, including Canadians, is calling for a ban on deep-sea mining just as U.S. President Donald Trump moves to fast-track undersea mining approvals.

It will take another 20-30 years before we may have sufficient data to understand the impact of large-scale deep-sea mining. Moreover, it would not stop unregulated mining for cobalt in Congo.

At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and Republicans clashed over environmental and business concerns.

Many scientists see deep-sea mining as environmentally risky. It has never been done at commercial scale before, and the deep sea is one of the planet’s least understood ecosystems.

The company acquired two deep-sea mining licenses in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone through its purchase of UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) from U.S. aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin.

A squat lobster in the deep sea. Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Norway’s plans to mine seabed minerals in Arctic waters remain in limbo after the first licensing round ...