US stakes competing claims to Pacific seabed mining areas, challenging UN authority

A recent Mongabay investigation by Elizabeth Claire Alberts and Andrés Alegría reveals that the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a swath of deep sea regulated by the International Seabed Authority, has received a surge of claim applications filed with the United States for mineral exploration and exploitation. While the ISA, a U.N.-associated body, is […]