Witnesses tell Congressional panel that to break Beijing's rare earths dominance, Washington must promote ocean mining of ...

Currently, the largest area in international waters being explored for commercial deep sea mining is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, located in the central Pacific Ocean. The vast area sits between ...

There’s a hitch, though. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the rest of the ocean floor in international waters falls under jurisdiction of the International Seabed Authority, whose 169 member ...

Something unpleasant. This experiment was carried out in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, according to Oceanographic, and the recovery process has taken too much time. The ocean floor was lost in time due ...

For its part, India has announced plans to ramp up its presence in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton zone, one of the world’s most mineral-rich deep-sea regions. Although the ISA has already ...

US President Donald Trump has been called many things. But a pirate? For now, that might be a stretch. But like all pirates, he has his eyes on a potentially rich prize – in this case, vast ...

270m tonnes, the amount of nickel in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, 800km south-east of Hawaii. Read our leader about why Mr Trump is right to go after metals in the deep sea. From Monday to ...

Israel has restricted Palestinians’ access to 70 percent of Gaza, either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the United Nations Office for ...