The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Beginning March 27th, Venus, our planet of love, attachment, assets, and aesthetics, will move out of the hellfires of Aries — and continue its retrograde in the glitter gutter of Pisces.

In the vast darkness of the deep sea, where finding a mate can be as challenging as surviving the crushing pressure, anglerfishes have evolved one of nature’s most extraordinary reproductive ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

China has developed a compact deep-sea device capable of cutting armoured undersea cables at depths of 4,000 metres — twice the operational depth of existing subsea communication infrastructure. The ...

The White House announced Tuesday that it had reached separate agreements with Russia and Ukraine to allow for “safe navigation” in the Black Sea, eliminating a major roadblock for peace talks ...

such as the pink basket star, spiky sea urchin and sea star shown here clinging to a brownish, sticklike tubeworm casing near a methane seep. Creatures such as these sea urchins serve as deep-sea ...

Meanwhile, Chinese researchers from state-affiliated institutions claimed to have developed a powerful deep-sea device: a cable cutter capable of severing heavily fortified communication and power ...

The White House said on Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to cease fighting in the Black Sea and to hash out the ... Moscow concessions it seeks.” Deep mistrust persists between Russia ...

What just happened? China has created a deep-sea cable-cutting device capable of severing the world's most fortified underwater communication and power lines at depths of up to 4,000 meters.

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