The Solomon Islands government is pushing for the controversial gold ridge mine to reopen, ABC Radio Australia reported. WHO and UNICEF Continue Emergency Response Efforts in Makira Province WHO and ...

The Solomon Islands Gold Ridge Mining Limited will be getting a 35-million US dollar loan from the International Finance Corporation - a member of the World Bank Group to help restart. Over the ...

A US firm says it has launched a bid for deep-sea mining in the waters off a remote Pacific island, urging regulators to greenlight its foray into the contentious emerging industry. The United ...

No country has mined in the high seas, but several countries, including Brazil, China, and the Cook Islands are supportive of deep-sea mining in their own economic zones. The U.S. has not signed ...

When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to ... The United Nations agency is in the midst of crafting regulations to govern a new industry for deep-sea mining that involves scraping ...

An aerial view of dredges at an illegal gold mining area in the Amazon region of Peru. Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent ...

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills, he doesn’t just see natural beauty; he also sees a scar cut ...

Three Alaska Native tribes have filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit granted to a company ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the Trump administration after years of hitting roadblocks in international negotiations. The island nation of Nauru ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far ... It was first sponsored by the island nation of Nauru as it secured ocean exploratory contracts all those years ago. TMC's position is that we ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...