Over 80 people gathered Sunday at Ala Moana Beach Park for a paddle-out ceremony opposing deep-sea mining, joining a global ...

The talks, in Jamaica, are before the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the only organization that can legally approve ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems ...

Chinese deep-sea mining vehicle Pioneer II gets a test run in June 2024. Shanghai Jiao Tong University/Xinhua via ZUMA Press Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.

President Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining and exercising U.S. sovereignty by doing so, even with the country not being a signatory party to UCLOS, are both perfectly legal. Seabed mining ...

As deep-sea mining accelerates to meet green tech demands, unresolved legal gaps, environmental risks, and ethical concerns highlight the urgent need for stronger global oversight and regulation ...

On April 24, 2025, President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for critical minerals beneath both United States and international ...

Of course the White House is calling its effort to carry out destructive deep-sea mining as a boon for the U.S. economy, and estimates it will cause $300 billion in GDP growth and bring in more ...

France on Monday accused the United States of violating international law after President Donald Trump signed an order to fast-track deep-sea mining in the open ocean outside his country's territorial ...

In the early 2020s, deep-seafloor mining was advertised as a source of key metals for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. However, battery technology has moved dramatically forward with new ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

Seabed mining doesn’t normally attract much media attention, but President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on the topic, issued on April 24, changed that in a hurry.