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Jun 8, 2026
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Mining companies may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea
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A crab with a coral on its back walks across a field of ferromanganese nodules on the seafloor of Gosnold Seamount in the North Atlantic. (NOAA via AP) A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent legal analysis suggests that this could place Canada in violation of international law. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently announced that an application made by Vancouver-based The Metals Company (via their U.S. su…
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