Japan is spending five weeks mining the sea floor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations ...
A treaty to protect the high seas has come into effect with the backing of more than 80 countries including China and Japan ...
Japan is accelerating a decade-old plan to extract rare earths from the deep seabed, an ambitious initiative given extra ...
A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with international partners, finds that ...
Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday. Earlier this week ...
Norway has stopped its deep-sea mining plans due to political pressure. Environmentalists focus on Japan's aspirations as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) develops sea mining regulations. What ...