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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Norway stops deep-sea mining, for now By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis December 2, 20247:47 AM PSTUpdated December 2, 2024 ...