This ambitious project seeks to unlock geological secrets, secure deep-sea resources, and assert China's technological and maritime dominance. The mission's location in the South China Sea raises ...

As part of its wider global ambitions, Beijing wants to establish China as a major player in deep-sea exploration, drilling, mining, and related fields. China's attempt to reach the Moho comes ...

US President Donald Trump has brought urgency to the debate around deep-sea mining, moving to fast-track US exploration in international waters and sidestepping global efforts to regulate the ...

With the help of advanced deep-sea imaging technology, researchers were able to capture high-quality images of the submarine’s wreckage, discovered more than 1,300 feet under the ocean’s ...

He also knew that I wrote my Ph.D. thesis in the early 1980s on the technology transfer provisions in the deep-seabed mining portions of the United Nations Law of the Sea treaty. I look at that ...

World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical minerals and the terms of a global treaty on plastic pollution.

The Guam Museum is connecting the community to the wonders of the deep sea with its first-ever “Puengen Tåsi Siha” or ocean nights at 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 25. During the event, the island ...

The Global Hadal Exploration Programme (GHEP), spearheaded by Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), aims to transform fragmented hadal ...

(Image Courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration) We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 ...

Metal-containing deep-sea nodules, which have the appearance of potato-size pebbles and typically contain nickel and cobalt, are highly sought for use in electric vehicle batteries and electric ...