Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

On global capitalism and shipping as its engine, deep sea mining, the climate crisis and ‘Deep Water’, his work of ...

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially ... grid for our electricity systems. And so there's a huge incentive for miners, given high prices for some of these metals ...

In January 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard blamed a Cameroon- and Tanzania-flagged vessel crewed by seven Chinese nationals and ...

China is responsible for most of the world’s processing of rare earth metals and minerals, but its new export restrictions ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

Trump orders probe into critical mineral import tariffs for defense, energy, and technology sectors, due to US' reliance on ...

Although it might sound like a James Cameron movie, or a figment of Julio Verne's imagination, it is very true. China has ...

For most of the human history, the oceans represented something larger than any power could control. It was unfathomable and beyond conquest—wild, uncontained, and governed by forces of nature rather ...