To overcome this, Hu’s team crafted a specialized diamond-coated grinding wheel. Spinning at 1,600 revolutions per minute, ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans.

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines calls its own claimed parts the ...