Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

The U.S. plans to stockpile deep-sea metals from the Pacific Ocean seabed to counter China's dominance in rare earth supply ...

Environmental group puts in symbolic £1 bid as UK licences auctioned off Greenpeace UK lawyers have written to the UK ...

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

Chevron has started oil and gas production from a project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the oil major said on Monday, bringing ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

On Monday, April 14, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that no country should issue permits to extract ocean ...

A firm developing underwater robots to harvest mineral-rich nodules from the ocean floor is seeking approval to investigate ...

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea research ship that sailed clockwise around Australia over the past week and is now loitering west of the continent. But maybe ...

BEIJING, April 14 (Reuters) - No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the ... sea metals found on the Pacific Ocean seabed to counter China's dominance ...

No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed ... of deep-sea metals found on the Pacific Ocean seabed to counter China's dominance of battery ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals ... set up a series of rules that will allow not just the exploration of these international waters, but potentially also ...