The waters surrounding a small South Pacific nation have been ruled to be off-limits from deep-sea mining for at least the next 50 years. As RFI reported, lawmakers in New Caledonia have passed a ...

Portugal has taken a major step in protecting its valuable ocean resources by passing a moratorium on deep-sea mining that bans the activity until at least 2050. According to Portugal Resident, the ...

Norway has shelved plans to open a vast ocean area at the bottom of the Arctic for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. The decision, which was confirmed late Sunday, comes after the country's Socialist ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and other ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Climate change impacts workers and their earnings, insurance risks and costs, housing affordability, the price of ...

In recent years, kratom has emerged as a topic of heated debate in wellness circles, medical communities, and regulatory agencies. This tropical tree, native to Southeast Asia, offers leaves that have ...

A stunning number of voters in deep-blue Massachusetts approve of Trump-appointed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A new Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll revealed that nearly one in three ...