The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...
The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...
American Samoa Delegate Aumua Amata Radewagen warned seabed mining could threaten fisheries, which she described as the ...
On January 21, 2026, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a final rule revising its regulations governing deep ...
When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela – carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing ...
Deep-sea mining is increasingly viewed as a potential source of critical minerals needed for the energy transition and advanced technologies, yet ...
Final rule would speed process companies must go through to receive exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit ...
Nearly 1,000 marine scientists and policy experts have similarly voiced their opposition. Even the surface of the moon is ...
The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic ...
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday issued a new rule to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters, ...
Tokyo hopes the plan to mine as much as 16 million tonnes of rare earths will help reduce its reliance on China, but will it ...