Legal experts say deep-sea mining cannot start until the ISA agrees how profits from the global seabed would be shared.

Led by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a bipartisan coalition re-introduced a resolution calling on the U.S. Senate to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which details the rights ...

While the prospects of Deep Sea Mining (DSM) to provide billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for use in global supply chains has been acknowledged for some time, the development of a legal ...

The White House is reportedly considering an executive order aimed at expediting the process for deep-sea mining in international waters, according to a Reuters exclusive. The potential order could ...

To pause or proceed? This is the current dilemma facing States and the ISA in relation to DSM exploitation activities. As the scientific community has gained greater understanding of the potential ...

President Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining and exercising U.S. sovereignty by doing so, even with the country not being a signatory party to UCLOS, are both perfectly legal. Seabed mining doesn’t ...

In December, one of America’s largest territorial expansions took place, with barely any public notice. The U.S. has claimed sovereignty over 1 million square kilometers — larger than Texas and ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is seeking deep-sea mining permits from the U.S. instead of waiting for the ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” or the “Company”), an explorer of the world’s largest estimated undeveloped source of critical battery ...