KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green says the ministry will continue to place “tremendous emphasis” on the mining sector to facilitate growth and to ...

Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from around the world convened at ISA headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica. Now, though, one mining firm says it plans to move forward — with or ...

Member states of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are currently meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, to discuss the future of deep-sea mining in international waters. These current meetings were ...

Members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are meeting in Kingston to thrash out the first mining code on deep-sea extraction that has faced accusations of imperiling marine ecosystems ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) — a little known intergovernmental body based in Kingston — and its member states have spent the last decade trying to hash out a mining code for the ...

But as the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA) meets in Kingston, Jamaica, this week, it will be writing rules for deep sea mining that threatens the very ecosystems in need of ...

The talks began in Kingston, Jamaica, seat of the International Seabed ... "We come together now with the work on the mining code, well advanced and with six weeks of negotiating before us this ...

Nations opposed to deep sea mineral mining and those in favor of exploiting the oceans' depths butted heads in Jamaica on Wednesday ... at their annual meeting in Kingston.

Several countries united with campaign groups Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea mining at a meeting on the issue in Jamaica. Members of the International ...