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With applications set to open for companies to mine the depth of the Pacific ocean, leaders call for a suspension to the controversial practice. 

The EU is shooting for greater independence to source materials like lithium needed to make batteries for electric vehicles. Could activists like those in the Spanish city Caceres stand in the way of a new mining wave?

The EU is shooting for greater independence to source materials like lithium needed to make batteries for electric vehicles. Could activists like those in the Spanish city Caceres stand in the way of a new mining wave?

The mining involves collecting minerals from the ocean floor for use in battery manufacture, and it can affect deep-sea communities.

A deep sea mining company was recently approved to trial its mining machinery at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Deep sea mining involves scouring the seabed with machines for concentration of important or valuable minerals, such as manganese.

Deep sea mining has recently received controversial approval, and experiments will soon begin at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, according to a report in Newsweek.

By Praveen Menon HUNTER VALLEY, Australia (Reuters) - At Glencore's aging Mt Owen open-cut coal mines north of Sydney, a team of scientists and engine...

Officials say the facility will provide crucial income despite causing war and pollution the last time it was open.

The controversial Panguna mine, which lay derelict for more than 30 years following the eruption of a civil war on the remote islands of Bougainville