The world’s oceans are increasingly becoming an important new frontier in the geopolitical and economic race for critical minerals, with countries fast-tracking plans for deep-sea mining. Meanwhile, ...
Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ...
President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...
Japan will begin deep-sea rare earth exploration in the South Pacific as it moves to diversify supply chains amid tighter Chinese export controls ...
Screenshot of a TBS report. Japan is set to launch the world’s first experimental extraction of so-called “rare earth mud” within i ...
The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...
Protesters project a slide opposed to deep-sea mining on the side of the Hidden Gem deep-sea mining vessel, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 8, 2022 (Sipa photo by Charles M. Vella via AP Images).
Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...