The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

The International Seabed Authority has issued a statement following the announcement that deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co has asked the Trump administration to approve its plans to mine the ...

A Vancouver-based mining company says it has submitted an application to U.S. authorities to become the first company to commercially mine the deep sea. In a news release Tuesday, The Metals ...

Trump signed an order last week directing NOAA to start dispensing such licenses with urgency, disregarding the role of the International Seabed Authority.

The Metals Company's US subsidiary has applied to NOAA for deep-sea mining permits, bypassing the International Seabed Authority and sparking international controversy. This move, enabled by a ...

The company is still waiting -- as it has for several years -- for the International Seabed Authority (ISA), an autonomous organization established by the U.N., to approve seabed mining regulations.

“An act of total disregard for international law” “The first application to commercially mine the seabed will be remembered as an act of total disregard for international law and scientific ...

But economic interest in the deep-ocean polymetallic nodules wasn’t developed until a century after that, according to the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Deep-sea mining involves extracting ...

It marked an abrupt shift in strategy as it had initially indicated that it would submit its request to the International Seabed Authority in June, which has jurisdiction over the seabed in ...

The filing is expected to spark a complex legal battle since the Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority, a U.N. agency that regulates international deep-sea waters, has the power to ...