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 battery-grade metals from international waters.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is back in the deep-sea mining game, holding talks with several mining companies about ...

The First Nation groups announced they are bringing urgent litigation to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to try to kill Ontario's Bill 5 and Ottawa's Bill C-5.

China accounts for almost two-thirds of rare earth mining production and 92 percent of global refined output, according to the International Energy Agency. A Japanese deep-sea scientific drilling ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of thousands of species that live in marine waters and the communities that ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

The construction industry is being restrained by three major barriers: soaring costs, tightening financial conditions, and a ...

He applauded a recent executive order signed by President Trump, which promotes deep-sea mining as a way for the U.S. to counter China's advantage in key global mineral supplies.

Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...

The Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, believed to be extinct for 250,000 years, shows internal signs of activity that surprise ...