Science and Technology Machines begin to scrape the ocean floor in search of metals for batteries, but scientists say the impact could last decades and change entire ecosystems before they are even known by science. Noel Budeguer 06/05/2026 at 17:28
Mining With nodules rich in nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese scattered up to 6,000 meters deep, a $1 billion merger creates a giant in underwater mining and accelerates the global race for critical metals hidden on the ocean floor. Valdemar Medeiros 11/04/2026 at 19:43
Interesting facts On a tiny island of 6.3 hectares, Mitsubishi created a city for over 5,000 residents, sustained by underwater coal mining, until the project’s collapse left ruins that still impress Japan. Noel Budeguer 27/03/2026 at 10:58
Science and Technology A Machine Disturbed The Seafloor’s Surface Layer To Vacuum Nodules Rich In Nickel, Cobalt, And Manganese, Raising A Sediment Plume That Changed Who Dominates The Habitat Noel Budeguer 24/02/2026 at 15:30
Mining At Over 4,000 Meters Deep in the Ocean, Chinese Robots Test Extraction of Polymetallic Nodules Rich in Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese, Positioning China at the Center of the New Global Race for Seabed Mining Valdemar Medeiros 05/02/2026 at 10:30
Interesting facts An Unknown World Under Threat: Expedition in the Pacific Abyss Discovers Hundreds of Unseen Species at 4,000 Meters Depth, but Mining Advances Could Erase One of Earth’s Oldest and Most Fragile Ecosystems Forever Ana Alice 03/02/2026 at 03:01
Mining Company Invests Billions and Spends 25 Years Trying to Explore Gold on the Seafloor, but Technology Fails, Project Sinks, and Becomes One of the Biggest Fiascos in Global Mining Valdemar Medeiros 07/09/2025 at 09:27
Industry Brazil Eyes Rare Earths: Country Claims Submerged Island Size of Spain and May Challenge China’s Dominance Over Strategic Minerals for Technology Alisson Ficher 07/07/2025 at 16:38
Interesting facts The Submerged Archipelago the Size of Uruguay in Brazil: Scientific Discovery Reveals Fragile Ecosystem, Rare Minerals, and Incredible Stories from the Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean Alisson Ficher 01/06/2025 at 14:29
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