In a small lab in Pasadena, Calif., scientists at an Impossible Metals spinoff called Viridian Biometals are trying to crack a problem about as challenging as pulling nodules out of the abyss: getting ...

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One of Fleetwood‘s last surviving commercial fishermen says potential fishing bans from sensitive marine ecosystems could kill off his livelihood.

With campaigning for next year’s Tamil Nadu Assembly elections already heating up, there is an urgent need for Delhi to ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

"One of my crew, an old salty dog who sailed on boats all over the Pacific, said he’d never seen anything like it..." ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...