Japan will begin deep-sea rare earth exploration in the South Pacific as it moves to diversify supply chains amid tighter ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Japan has embarked on a daring mission to explore rare earths from the deep sea, aiming to reduce its heavy reliance on China ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining operation churned through the seabed. Once the machinery arrived, biodiversity ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...