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And theyre worth trillions of dollars. What makes them so valuable . What is in that . Well, that is a electric vehicle battery in a rock. The worlds most powerful countries are preparing to harvest it. So why isnt america . Thats our story tonight. ticking nearly half of all Syrian Refugees are children. More than three million of them. How old are you guys . We visited refugee camps in jordan. Six. When it was 111 degrees. There was no Running Water, no indoor plumbing, but there was a brandne...

In 1970, the worlds first experimental deep-sea mining operation took place 130 miles off the South Carolina coast. Scientists just went back. Their shocking photos, released on Feb. 19, come

Offshore drilling company Transocean has agreed to invest in DEME Group’s subsidiary Global Sea Mineral Resources NV (“GSR”)…

Offshore Drilling Company Transocean Has Agreed To Invest In DEME Group’S Subsidiary Global Sea Mineral Resources NV (“GSR”)…

During The Past Few Years, Much Of The World Has Turned Its Eye Towards Adopting More Sustainable Practices And Transitioning…

Here’s what I’ve learned being up close and personal with the debate.

When Cindy Van Dover started working with Nautilus Minerals, a deep-sea mining company, she received hate mail from other marine scientists. Van Dover is a prolific deep-sea biologist, an oceanographer who has logged hundreds of dives to the seafloor. In 2004, Nautilus invited Van Dover and her students to characterize ecosystems in the Manus Basin […]

Deep-sea mining tests resume as lost robot rescued Patania II had been operating at a depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — an expanse of ocean between Hawaii and Mexico that’s as big as the continental US. ( Belgium’s Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has resumed tests that could lead to the mining of battery minerals from the Pacific Ocean floor after it managed to recover a robot stranded at a depth of thousands of metres. The company reported on April 2...

589 View from Patania II, a deep-sea mining robot trialled in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, April 2021. (GSR/Handout via REUTERS) Belgiums Global Sea Mineral Resources has resumed tests that could lead to the mining of battery minerals from the Pacific Ocean floor after it managed to recover a robot stranded at a depth of thousands of metres. Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has been testing Patania II, a 25-tonne mining robot prototype, 4 km (13,000 ft) below the surface...

GSR reconnects deep-seabed mining robot Patania II April 30, 2021, by Amir Garanovic DEME’s deep sea mining subsidiary Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has recovered the prototype deep-seabed mining robot Patania II from the floor of the Pacific Ocean after it had become uncoupled from a cable connecting it to a surface vessel. Patania II deep-seabed mining robot (Courtesy of DEME Group) Patania II – GSR’s purpose-built prototype nodule coll...