A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded on Sunday in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the ...

Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. Oslo had planned to ...

• Activists urge Norway to turn this pause into permanent legal protections for Arctic waters and join the global movement for a moratorium on deep-sea mining.

Norway has suspended plans to start giving licences for deep-sea mining next year that had faced opposition from environment ...

The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget ...

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against seabed mining outside the Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo, Norway on January 9, 2024. JAVAD PARSA / AFP The pressure ultimately proved ...

Commenting on the latest move, WWF-Norway CEO Karoline Andaur said: “This is a major and important environmental victory. “SV has stopped the process for deep seabed mining, giving Norway a ...

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, of the Labor Party said the agreement was just a pause in its mining plans and that environmental impact assessments and regulation settings will continue.

"This is a crucial win in the fight against deep sea mining. It should be the nail in the coffin for the destructive industry," Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace Norway, told Reuters. Oslo had plans ...

Protesters held a demonstration against seabed mining outside the Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo earlier this year [Getty Images] Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its ...