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So deep sea research is really very limited by the resources that have been put towards it thus far. But there has been a lot of exploration that's been happening over the last century.
The green transition will not happen without the resources that lie in the deep sea, says Renee Grogan, the Director of Sustainability at the mining company Impossible Mining.
These are still early days. Current thinking is that the deep sea could supply some of the metals powering modern technological innovations, including those in the green energy transition.
The Trump administration could green-light deep-sea mining for the first time. A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials.
A disagreement between deep-sea miner The Metals Company and researchers over a new scientific study is threatening efforts to mine the ocean bed for metals critical to supporting the green-energy ...
The agency has legal authority over seabed resources under the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea, a 1982 treaty that has been signed by more than 160 countries. The U.S. isn’t a signatory.
At this stage, 17 deep-sea mining contractors hold exploration contracts in the CCZ, which spans more than three million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean — equivalent to the size of India.
President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the ...
The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared with undisturbed areas nearby. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.