The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

The International Seabed Authority isn’t close to setting rules on harvesting minerals more than a decade after talks on how ...

Recent incidents of cable damage near Taiwan and in northern Europe have already raised concerns of these systems’ ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world's most secure subsea cables—and it ...

In January 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard blamed a Cameroon- and Tanzania-flagged vessel crewed by seven Chinese nationals and operated by a Hong Kong-based company when an undersea cable was severed off ...

Using creative thinking and Lego technology, an Agawam robotics team engaged in research, problem-solving, coding and ...

While this discovery could upend our understanding of how life started on Earth, the study also complicates negotiations ...

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The White House is reportedly considering an executive order aimed at expediting the process for deep-sea mining in ...

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

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