In January 2024, Norway's parliament opened the way to deep-sea mining and was planning to start issuing exploration licenses in 2025.

After Norway announced it planned to open a licensing round for the initial step of exploratory deep-sea mining in early 2025, it opened a public comment period—an opportunity for scientists to ...

Norway has stopped its deep-sea mining plans due to political pressure. Environmentalists focus on Japan's aspirations as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) develops sea mining regulations.

The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.

OSLO (Reuters) -A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded on Sunday in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic, by demanding the government scrap ...

In a four-year study ending in 2020, Norwegian scientists discovered that in the fjords of western Norway mortality rates among farmed salmon from sea lice infestation reached more than 30%.

Norway Pauses Deep Sea Mining Plans By Tsvetana Paraskova - Dec 02, 2024, 6:37 AM CST ...

Researchers have discovered that deep-sea fish generate carbonate minerals at rates similar to shallow species, confirming ...