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 ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

Deep-sea mining hasn’t yet been done on a commercial scale, but it’s not a new idea. If you take a boat some 80 miles off the southeast Atlantic coast, you’ll sit above the world’s largest ...

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting the industry’s potential to boost the country’s economic growth and ...

It is therefore fitting, or else darkly ironic, that the day also saw the unveiling by China of a new deep-sea testing site – the nation’s first such institution, located about 200 kilometers ...

Several developments last month are likely to shape the future of the controversial deep-sea mining industry. A congressional hearing on the subject highlighted the widely touted promise of seabed ...

4 Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Accessible at ...

For national and international policymakers, decisions on how to regulate — and whether to allow — exploitative human activities such as deep-sea mining require good information. A new study ...

Read more: More than 99% of the Deep Sea Still Remains a Mystery If the United States wanted to secure its own metal supply chains, it would be better to focus on simplified permitting to process ...

Deep-sea mining has emerged as a rapidly developing frontier in global resource extraction, driven by the increasing demand for minerals essential for green technologies. Minerals such as nickel ...