Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

The next frontier in energy: the deep ocean, where there are enormous deposits of the minerals needed for clean energy technologies. Is this a game-changing breakthrough or an environmental disaster ...

Gerard Barron told MINING.COM Devan Murugan that the new administration’s focus on domestic mineral production comes at the ...

First Solar pledges to keep supply chains free from seabed minerals, aligning with a global moratorium on deep sea mining to safeguard marine ecosystems.

Increasingly crowded orbits full of satellites and debris pose potential hazards for services on Earth, and need regulation.

Undersea agriculture. Deep sea mining. Human colonies on the ocean floor. These were the dreams of Capt. George Bond, a Navy ...

But deep-sea mining is controversial. Life thousands of feet below sea level tends to be slow-growing and fragile. Even small disruptions to the ocean floor can persist for decades, and scientists ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

The imminent presidency of Donald Trump looks set to boost the fortunes of deep-sea-mining as support for harvesting the world’s ocean floors for critical minerals grows, both in Congress and ...