Campaigner says The Metals Company's loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of Pacific Ocean harboring coveted metals and minerals.

The International Seabed Authority is meeting in Jamaica to thrash out the rules for deep-sea extraction. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Kiribati’s Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Resources ... for approval to begin mining in the area allocated to Nauru, a 21-square kilometer island home to 10,000 people.

India has sent humanitarian assistance to Botswana in the wake of the floods there, and also sent a six-bedded Dialysis Unit ...

Pacific nations Kiribati, Cook Islands and Nauru sit at the forefront ... Kiribati, a climate-threatened archipelago home to some 130,000 people, has been drifting closer to China since it severed ...

Greenland is one of the nations hoping to become recognised on the global football stage - but the path is a difficult one ...

Pacific nations Kiribati, Cook Islands and Nauru sit at the forefront ... Kiribati, a climate-threatened archipelago home to some 130,000 people, lays claim to an ocean expanse that forms one ...

Minister for Transport, Energy, Communication, and Innovation Simon Kofe says the Manu Sina "will be a lifeline for people in ...