Beneath the Pacific Ocean lies one of the world's largest untapped collections of critical minerals, containing vast reserves ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the U.N.-associated regulator of seabed mining ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) concluded its annual session in the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica without ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Metals Co ‌on Thursday became the first deep-sea ‌miner to seek Washington's approval to mine the international seabed under a streamlined permitting process introduced earlier ...

The U.S. government is planning to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.

The Wild West is alive and well — it just moved underwater. As nations and companies race to stake their claim in the deep sea, industry is moving faster than regulation can keep up. This year, the ...

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A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

Norway's recent approval of deep-sea mining sets a precedent for other nations, as they seek to access critical minerals necessary for renewable energy technologies. While environmentalists and ...

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Rare molluscs that could advance medicine and technology are increasingly at risk as seabed mineral extraction expands.