In a statement, ISA’s secretary-general Leticia Carvalho said the authority holds exclusive control over all activities in the international seabed area ... a global treaty setting rules for ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Solomon Kahoʻohalahala steadied himself on the double-hulled voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa as a 15-foot swell rose and the ...

Now the Trump administration, which has already expressed its desire to retake the Panama Canal and assume control ... seabed mining might take place. But the United States has never signed the ...

87 countries, including Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.

(Bloomberg) -- A seabed mining company has asked the Trump ... license for the Pacific Ocean could upend an international treaty that governs deep-sea mining and other uses of the world’s ...