China should shore up alliances with pro-seabed mining countries to control and extract the wealth of critical resources in ...

People living in the Pacific nation are divided on whether to push ahead with deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules.

Deep seabed mining is already controversial because of inherent environmental and biodiversity risks. A new study shows that ...

Emerging commercial technologies can enable mining operations on Earth, the seabed, and the Moon, reducing America's ...

These blocks lie within India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), extending 200 nautical miles into the sea. Of the 13 blocks, ...

UK’s underwater industry, including offshore energy, aquaculture, defence, telecoms and seabed minerals, supports over 51,000 ...

Norway suspended its plans to open vast areas of its seabed for deep-sea mining on Sunday (December 1), reacting to pressure ...

Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals. Critics fear harm to fragile marine ecosystems. The WWF ...

Local environmental groups are urging the government to conduct a comprehensive survey to determine public support for seabed ...

This remote atoll allows Japan to claim an EEZ encompassing nearly 429,000 sq km (166,000 square miles) of surrounding waters ...

This discrepancy arises because deep seabed minerals don’t belong to any jurisdiction and thus cannot be similarly taxed. To obtain exploration licences for deep seabed mining, UNCLOS requires ...