But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

Tampa, Fla.-based deep sea critical minerals specialist American Ocean Minerals Corporation (AOMC) reports that is deploying ...

Researchers say our understanding of Earth’s largest biome is based on a tiny, unrepresentative sample dominated by just a few countries. Reading time 3 minutes We’ve got better visuals of Mars than ...

The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Norway’s plans to mine seabed minerals in Arctic waters remain in limbo after the first licensing round was delayed in December 2024. However, the ...

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, ...

While the permits could cover territory far beyond the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, the president is also setting in motion potential seabed mining within U.S. coastal waters. Trump’s directive comes ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first commercial ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...