“The Metals Company is promising regulatory certainty in a regulatory vacuum,” said Bobbi-Jo Dobush, ocean conservation policy expert and author of Deep Sea Mining Isn’t Worth the Risk. “The only ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Trump orders probe into critical mineral import tariffs for defense, energy, and technology sectors, due to US' reliance on ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, China's foreign ministry said on ...

No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, China's foreign ministry said on Monday, following a report of U.S.

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

The International Seabed Authority isn’t close to setting rules on harvesting minerals more than a decade after talks on how ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

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The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is ...

A new global study warns that the climate cost of seabed trawling is still largely unknown, and researchers say urgent action is needed to close the data gap. The work is part of the Convex ...