The Congress-led UDF announced protests against the Union and state governments over deep-sea mining and other issues. A ...

Kiribati is reportedly in discussions with China to explore deep-sea mining opportunities, signaling a potential shift in its ...

The Metals Company is being accused by environmental groups of changing its corporate branding from fueling the green ...

Pressure on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to finalize and adopt regulations for deep-sea mining is increasing.

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

Kollam: “They can bring in the navy or even the army, but we will not allow sea mining off our shore. This is a matter of ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Close to 170 member states and the European Union gathered in Jamaica on 17 March 2025, for a two-week-long negotiation on ...

The oldest mining test site is a strip of CCZ seabed, ploughed in 1979. Daniel Jones, a NOC researcher who trawled the ...

For more than a decade, delegates from the United Nations-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA) have been negotiating regulations to allow deep-sea mining as required by a 1982 UN treaty.

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway over when and whether to allow mining of ...