A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...
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Study measuring impacts of deep-sea mining machine finds abundance of animals at the site decreased by 37%
A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline data, tracking natural changes and assessing the impacts of a polymetallic ...
The drilling vessel is backed by Japanese government funding, and will spend a month collecting rare earth sludge along a ...
Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres ...
Tokyo set to make world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare-earth-rich mud from a depth of around 6,000m ...
Japan will begin deep-sea rare earth exploration in the South Pacific as it moves to diversify supply chains amid tighter ...
A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...
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 ...
President Trump’s April executive order aims to accelerate U.S. deep-sea mining, stockpile critical minerals, and reduce reliance on China for rare earths and battery metals. Companies like TMC The ...
Huge tracts of Pacific Ocean seabed are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, bulbous lumps of rock that are rich in metals used in battery production - Copyright AFP ...
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