Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...

A US firm says it has launched a bid for deep-sea mining in the waters off a remote Pacific island, urging regulators to greenlight its foray into the contentious emerging industry. The United ...

In late March, The Metals Company, a Canadian deep-sea mining firm, announced that it would seek approval from US agencies to extract critical minerals in areas of the ocean floor that are beyond ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change ...

Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase ... How would they impact SIDS, which are much closer to the areas that would see the DSM activities?" For small island states, climate change ...

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about: By dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone Mar 25, 2025 New study examines the spread of deep-sea mining sediment plumes ...

Impossible Metals requests U.S. auction for American Samoa mineral deposits Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to decide on lease sale initiation by May 23 Deep-sea mining could reduce land mining ...

The push for clean energy is driving interest in deep-sea mining, a controversial method of extracting critical metals from the ocean floor. These polymetallic nodules contain key ingredients for ...

A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed that the effects of a deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean more than four decades ago are still apparent ...

The industry has already suffered a false start. Norway's parliament had voted massively in favour of deep-sea mining, experts had concluded there were significant resources to be extracted ...