The Trump administration could green-light deep-sea mining for the first time
A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...
The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...
Canadian company seeks US permission to start deep-sea mining as outcry ensues
An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...
Deep sea mining impacts visible for 'many decades'
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
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There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company wants to push forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
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There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. Companies want to push forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...
Deep sea mining impacts still felt forty years on, study shows
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...