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He denies these claims. Carvalho, a Brazilian oceanographer and international diplomat, says it is time for “meaningful transformation” at the seabed authority.

Industrial-scale deep-sea mining for metals and minerals is on hold for now, after the international group that governs the sea floor could not come to an agreement on a mining code for the ocean bed.

The International Seabed Authority missed a deadline on July 9 to enact regulations to allow the mining of deep sea ecosystems for valuable metals used in electric-car batteries.

With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor. Courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research ...

A lawyer representing the International Seabed Authority provided these responses to questions via email. On the ISA’s autonomy “The ISA is not part of the United Nations but rather is an ...