The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

July 7, 2025) – First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS) (OTCQB: FRSPF) (FSE: KD0) (“First Phosphate” or the “Company”) is pleased ...

A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China's influence while establishing America as an ...

The case of the island of Nauru highlights the dangers of resource depletion and mismanagement: decades of intensive phosphate mining in its interior brought temporary wealth, but ultimately led ...

But by the 1990s, the phosphate reserves were running out. Years of over-mining had destroyed around 80% of the island’s surface, leaving jagged limestone formations and an interior that remains ...

Yet despite this cultural tie to the ocean, some Pacific countries like Nauru and the Cook Islands are at the forefront of exploring the potential of deep-sea mining.

Unusually pure phosphate deposits — a key ingredient in fertiliser — once made Nauru one of the wealthiest places, per capita, on the planet.

Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang said, opening a contentious "golden passport" scheme as other climate financing runs ...

Once one of the world’s richest nations per capita, Nauru was built on phosphate mining, an industry that has left 80 per cent of the island uninhabitable. Most residents live on the coast.