News & Commentary

An article in the Washington Post highlighted the large role that China is playing in the International Seabed Authority to gain access to polymetallic nodules. The country has rights to five licenses and is very influential in moving policy at the ISA. China clearly has a leg up on the US and Europe when it … Read more

TMC held an open webcast on 11/21/23 where lead environmental manager, Michael Clarke, discussed data gathered from last year’s harvesting program. The data showed that benthic plume dispersion was heavily influenced by a gravity current such that the plume doesn’t spread upward to any great extent, but instead spreads laterally. Because the plume doesn’t spread … Read more