Executive order under review would bypass UN-backed body International Seabed Authority has yet to set rules NOAA would oversee permitting for deep-sea mining March 31 (Reuters) - The White House ...

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would speed up deep-sea mining in international waters by allowing companies to circumvent a United Nations-backed review process ...

The extraction process involves dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone. Editor’s note: This article was written by Alexus Cazares-Nuesser of the University of Hawai‘i. It originally ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Delegates from across the world gather for a meeting by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a U.N ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, according to a new study. It said that the mining had led to long-term sediment changes ...

FILE - Delegates from across the world gather for a meeting by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a U.N. body in Kingston, Jamaica, July 14, 2015. (AP Photo/David McFadden, File) ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States — Governments and environmental activists expressed anger Friday after a Canadian undersea mining group announced plans to cut a deal with the United States to side-step ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's largest conscription drive in 14 years. His ultimate goal is to have an army larger than America's, our Moscow correspondent explains. Follow the latest below ...

Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

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Full body illustration of the new species of anglerfish, Gigantactis paresca. (Credit: Samantha Rickle) A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi ...