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 ...

Protecting underwater ecosystems from the growing interest in rare mineral mining, framing deep-sea laws and building a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.