By Ernest Scheyder Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Metals Co on Thursday became the first deep-sea miner to seek Washington's approval to mine the international seabed under a streamlined permitting process ...
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is pressing ahead on Wednesday with an effort to ...
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday issued a new rule to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters, ...
When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela—carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing ...
China has successfully tested its first domestically developed robot capable of conducting three-dimensional drilling ...
Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might support life. Now ...
Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...
Scientists discovered that deep-sea vents are tapping hydrogen from buried sediments, reshaping ideas about where ocean ...
The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...