The Latest Breaking News from the International Seabed Authority

With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the wor

Leticia Carvalho elected as new Secretary General of International Seabed Authority. Concerns over deep-sea mining regulations and environmental impact.

Environmental groups are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an international meeting in Jamaica where an obscure U.N. body will debate the issue amid fears it could soon authorize the world’s first license to harvest minerals from the ocean floor

Brazil is urging a 10-year precautionary pause on deep sea mining in international waters just days after companies and countries were allowed to start applying for provisional licenses

A U.N. agency tasked with regulating the deep sea is debating whether to open the Earth’s watery depths to countries and companies that are now allowed to start applying for provisional mining licenses

David Lammy says Labour government would join growing list of countries and multinationals opposing rush to mine the seabed

Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.

The International Seabed Authority will start accepting applications in July from companies that want to mine the ocean's floor, a decision that came after the U.N. body spent the past two weeks debating standards for the new and controversial practice.

Head of seabed authority accused of abandoning neutrality at critical point with first commercial application imminent