Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the internet name a newly discovered deep‑sea ...

Feb. 3 (Asia Today) --Japan said Tuesday it successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth elements, a test the government framed as a step toward reducing reliance on ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Metals Co (TMC.O), opens new tab on Thursday became the first deep-sea miner to seek Washington's approval to mine the international seabed under a streamlined permitting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A Japanese deep-sea mining ship has embarked on a mission to conduct the world's first ever extraction of "rare earth mud" from the ocean floor. Japan's need for alternative rare earth mineral sources ...

Jan. 11 (Asia Today) --Japan will begin deep-sea rare earth exploration in the South Pacific on Monday as it moves to diversify supply chains amid tighter Chinese export controls on rare earths, ...

The U.S. government is moving closer to approving deep-sea mining in international waters, opening a contentious new front in the push to secure critical minerals. Federal officials said they will ...

As demand for critical minerals surges around the world, countries are debating whether to mine the untapped deep-sea reserves of cobalt, copper and manganese, miles below the surface. But a growing ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...