A recent executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump to unilaterally authorize commercial deep-sea mining has raised concerns among experts, who warn that the move disregards the ...

Challenges Identified: The report points to fragmented data sharing, low private sector investment, and technology gaps in critical areas like offshore wind, marine biotechnology, and deep-sea mining.

Specifically, at an UNCLOS conference in 1983, the United States asserted that the treaty’s “deep sea-bed mining regime…is purely contractual in character” and that seabed mining “is a ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. In 2013, a ...

This new transition to more renewable forms of energy is increasing the demand for many critical minerals, which is in turn increasing the interest in the deep sea as a source of these minerals.

She has been covering deep-sea mining for Mongabay, and she also reports on a range of other ocean-related topics, including fisheries, rising sea temperatures, and coral reef health. Prior to joining ...

“On April 24, President Trump issued an executive order to accelerate seabed mining through expedited ... as both an investor and operator, along with deep relationships across the US.” ...

In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

The waters surrounding a small South Pacific nation have been ruled to be off-limits from deep-sea mining for at least the next 50 years. As RFI reported, lawmakers in New Caledonia have passed a ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

Deep Sea Diver has been feeling the Seattle love for more than a decade, ever since Los Angeles transplant Jessica Dobson arrived in 2011 and started making a splash in local indie rock circles.

Still, the global supply of bitcoin is still more than large enough to keep quite a few people employed, including Cango, which entered the mining business last November in a surprise pivot away ...