Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

Japan has announced that it will launch the world’s first deep-sea mining test for rare minerals in January 2026. The mission ...

By forging ahead with deep-sea mining, the US is bypassing the UN and creating a diplomatic storm – with a Swiss firm at the ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

In 2024 a Chinese prototype deep-sea mining vehicle called Pioneer II, developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, set a national record by operating at a depth of more than 4,000 meters (13,100 ...

So-called polymetallic nodules like those seen in this 2016 photograph from Japan are at the heart of the race to ... Another tiny Pacific nation, Kiribati, also says it is exploring a deep-sea mining ...

In addition, Norway, Japan, the Cook Islands, and Papua New Guinea are considering deep-sea mining in their own waters. Read more: Fishing Communities in the Philippines Are Fighting for their ...

In addition, Norway, Japan, the Cook Islands, and Papua New Guinea are considering deep-sea mining in their own waters. Read more: Fishing Communities in the Philippines Are Fighting for their Future ...

One of the greatest potential dangers to that fragile ecosystem is deep-ocean mining—industrializing the untouched and unseen ocean floor to extract nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, gold, silver, ...

Overheated and overfished: an SOS for oceans under duress is being sent from a UN summit in Nice. But try telling that to those who advocate deep-sea drilling for precious metals. In a world ...

Several nations, including the Cook Islands, Norway and Japan, are also exploring deep-sea mining within their territorial waters. Supporters claim seabed extraction has a smaller environmental ...