The United States Government has proposed deep-sea mining leases covering 28 million hectares of seabed off Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with Guam opposing the plan and the Northern Mariana Islands approaching it with extreme caution. On August 18, the Marine Mineral Administration (MMA...

US agency releases plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed off the coast of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam

The United States Government has proposed deep-sea mining leases covering 28 million hectares of seabed off Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with Guam opposing the plan and…