Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 metres (about 20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission ...

Japan is accelerating a decade-old plan to extract rare earths from the deep seabed, an ambitious initiative given extra ...

Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.

The deep-sea drilling vessel "Chikyu" successfully extracted rare earth-containing mud at a depth of 6,000 meters in the waters near Minamitorishima.

One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.

A DW investigation traces the hidden financial web behind deep-sea mining — an industry scientists say remains poorly understood, yet capable of causing irreversible harm to oceans worldwide.

OMV Petrom failed to find commercial hydrocarbons with its closely-watched Vinekh-1 exploration well in Bulgaria's sector of the Black Sea. The Vinekh-1 drilling location lies some 60 kilometres south ...

The country says the test mission was the world’s first attempt to tap deep-sea rare earths at a depth of 6,000m.

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse ...

Japan successfully retrieved rare earth minerals from deep-sea sediment near Minamitorishima island, marking a world first.