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 ...

Norway's government reached an agreement with a small progressive party to not mine in the Arctic in exchange for it ...

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 ...

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

Government suspends plans to award first licenses after environmental party demands their withdrawal in return for budget ...

"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 ...

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway will not proceed with plans to conduct deep-sea mining, the SV party which supports the minority centre-left government said on Sunday, after it concluded negotiations over ...