Despite the test's success, experts remain cautious about deep-sea mining as a rare earth supply source, noting that the mission near Minamitori Island is constrained by technological hurdles, high ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology announced earlier this month that Japan has recently successfully collected mud containing rare earth elements from the seabed in waters off ...

Many DDE working and Task Groups and other earth science research communities make use of the Platform. For example, the DDE Paleogeography Reconstruction Alliance has contributed data and models that ...