An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under ...

On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku mega-earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami. At ...

Scientists embarked on a deep-sea drilling expedition off Japan to study the fault responsible for the devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Dr Jon Tore Lieng, Managing Director of Deep Sea Anchors AS discusses Dynamically Installed Anchors for offshore floating ...

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A newly unveiled firm's asteroid-mining plans may be ambitious, but they're not any crazier than some extractive operations already under way here on Earth, company officials say. The ...

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday. Earlier this week ...

Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) has received approval by the local authorities to drill two carbon capture and storage wells this November off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The drilling ...

Transocean Ltd.’s RIG semi-submersible drilling rig, Transocean Barents, is making its way to the Neptun Deep project for a 10-well drilling mission, marking a significant phase in Romania’s offshore ...

Shell Oil is now drilling wells in two Arctic seas off Alaska's northern coast. Drilling began Wednesday afternoon in the Beaufort Sea after the end of an Inupiat whale hunt, according to Curtis Smith ...

Natland, James H., Tarney, John, Marsh, N. G., Melson, William G., and O'Hearn, T. 1984. "Compositions, Stratigraphy, and Alteration of Pillow Basalts, Deep Sea ...