America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

Defense contractor Raytheon announced it conducted the first untethered, semi-autonomous tests of the Barracuda sea mine ...

Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a ...

Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

In conjunction with the launch of its brand-new Mariner XL ROV, Deep Ocean Search (DOS) Ltd entered a Memorandum of ...

The deep sea has a relatively stable sound velocity distribution. Based on the acoustic characteristics of reliable channels, this paper presents a method for estimating the depth of underwater ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of ...

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

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