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

Nations are pursuing underwater exploration for highly sought-after rare earth minerals, but the head of the UN’s ...

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.

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

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 ...

President Trump’s April 2025 executive order boldly departs from past U.S. policy on deep sea mining and UNCLOS, marking the first time this century that the U.S. has planned to mine the seafloor.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.