Commissioned in late 2024, Meng Xiang is a 560-foot, 42,600-ton ship with a 36,000 ft deep-sea drill capacity. It can stay at sea for 120 days, house 180 personnel, and includes nine cutting-edge ...

Guterres said he supported these negotiations and urged caution as countries navigate these "new waters on seabed mining". "The deep sea cannot become the wild west," he said, to applause from the ...

Guterres has expressed his support for these negotiations. Many countries oppose deep-sea mining, and France hopes to leverage this moment to rally support for a moratorium until more is known about ...

The natural waterbody exchange aquaculture vessel, Wan Qu Ling Ding, docks offshore of Jiangmen, Guangdong province.[Photo provided to China Daily] The world's first natural waterbody exchange ...

Overheated and overfished: an SOS for oceans under duress is being sent from a UN summit in Nice. But try telling that to those who advocate deep-sea drilling for precious metals. In a world ...

In 2024 a Chinese prototype deep-sea mining vehicle called Pioneer II, developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, set a national record by operating at a depth of more than 4,000 meters (13,100 ...

Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damaged 1,994 square kilometers (770 ...

US Strategy on Deep Sea Mining? Dive, Baby, Dive. Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone.

Dubbed a "breeding aircraft carrier" and a "deep-sea granary", the vessel represents a new era of technology-driven sea farming and is expected to help Zhuhai, Guangdong, become a regional marine ...

Don't let deep sea become 'wild west', Guterres tells world leaders Ukraine says Russia launched the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the war ‘Absolutely horrible job’: Trump slams ...

This year, Zhanjiang will build a new large-scale intelligent deep-sea aquaculture platform and more than 230 large deep-water net cages, as part of its effort to build itself into a strong ...