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

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

Mining and exploration activity will raise sediments from the ocean floor, reducing the seagrass’ access to the sunlight it depends on. Sediment clouds from mining can travel hundreds or even ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped ... it needs to map those realms. Exploration and mapping, and making the data open source, would be for the betterment of ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada. The Nevada survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but years later after ...

The Metals Company, a Canadian startup, says it will seek approval this year to launch the world's first deep-sea mine in the eastern Pacific Ocean ... it will apply for "exploration licenses ...

Once the jackup is on location, the legs are lowered to the ocean's floor and the rig hull and ... and the derrick is positioned over it. While exploration wells can be drilled with drilling ...

Life on the deep ocean floor is still a mysterious realm that scientists have ... The International Seabed Authority issued seven new seabed-exploration permits in 2014, bringing the global total to ...

Acoustic profiling has long been used in ocean floor exploration for oil and gas. Analogous seismic methods are also routinely used onshore for oil and mineral exploration. The basic principle ...

Image: Popular Science Hartman’s contributions came at a time of rapid transformation in photography, motion pictures, and ocean exploration. Though Thomas Edison had patented his Kinetoscope ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...