The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a U.N.-associated body, has long managed activities related to deep-sea mining in international waters. But after the Trump administration issued an executive order in 2025 calling for the U.S. to develop its deep-sea mining sector, companies have been applying to the U.S. for rights to explore and exploit the international seabed, challenging the ISA’s authority. In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a hotspot of mining interest in international waters, a Mongabay analysis shows that companies have either applied to the U.S. or already been granted rights to areas of the seabed equal to about half the expanse already designated for mining activities by the ISA. Several of these claims overlap, as depicted in our interactive map, raising concerns about the management of the international seabed. Critics already concerned that deep-sea mining could have detrimental effects on the marine environment said U.S.-led acceleration of the industry would only benefit the U.S. and U.S. companies, rather than benefiting developing nations, as the ISA is mandated to do. U.S. ambitions to mine the deep sea are rapidly expanding across the ocean, not only in the country’s own waters, but also on the high seas — the vast expanse of ocean outside any one country’s jurisdiction. In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a hotspot of mining interest in international waters, a Mongabay analysis shows that companies have either applied to the U.S. or already been granted rights to areas of the seabed equal to about…This article was originally published on Mongabay
The video released by Al Jazeera lasts just 25 seconds but has once again reignited public debate. The footage shows at least 10 fighters in a forest, “coming back from a mission,” as one of them can be heard saying. The group of soldiers, who are Mexican, Colombian, and Panamanian — as acknowledged by the person filming — is allegedly part of Ukraine’s front line in the war launched by Russia.
El temporal, tormenta o aluvión de San Florencio fue un acontecimiento que asoló a Canarias con gran intensidad los días 7 y 8 de noviembre de 1826, estando aún por dilucidar muchas de sus consecuencias e impactos sobre el transcurso de la vida cotidiana de los canarios de aquellos años.
El ministro del Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, aseguró este lunes, durante la inauguración del nuevo cuartel de la Guardia Civil en Mieres, que "se están haciendo expulsiones" de migrantes en Ceuta y cifró en más de 5.300 los retornos voluntarios registrados desde el 18 de agosto, además de señalar que se han producido ya 300 expulsiones judiciales. El titular de Interior sostuvo que la tramitación de los expedientes ha alcanzado una "velocidad de crucero" y defendió que el objetivo es resolverlos "a la mayor brevedad posible".
One day in 2016, paleontologist David DeMar got very lucky. While examining the ground at Hell Creek in the U.S. state of Montana, he found a fossil the size of a golf ball. It was a coprolite — fossilized feces — from a theropod (probably a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or a Nanotyrannus). Inside the coprolite was a feather from an aquatic bird (not related to modern birds). With a high degree of confidence, researchers believe the bird spent the final moments of its life in the digestive tract of a teenage T. rex.
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