The Race to Mine the Ocean Floor
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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British scientists have embarked on a mission to study a huge area on the Atlantic seabed where the Earth's crust is mysteriously missing and instead is covered with dark green rock from deep inside the planet.
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NAIROBI : Much has been done to rid the world of landmines since a ban was born in 1997, but major challenges, many of them financial, must be overcome to wipe the devices off the planet, a conference in Nairobi heard.
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Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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As global warming melts the Arctic ice, dreams of a short sea passage to Asia - and riches beneath the surface - have been revived. But who will win the world's new Great Game?
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An ambitious project to catalog life in the ocean shows that so far we've just scratched the surface. By Stephen Leahy.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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The search for sunken treasure in deep-sea shipwrecks may sound like the stuff of children's adventure stories rather than corporate boardrooms.
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Philip Durell takes a look at three gold mines for value investors.
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Some of the parties involved with undersea power transmission projects connecting New Jersey to New York are also looking into building a line to carry power from Maine to Boston.
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An ambitious two-year effort aims to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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Rock scientists from across the world  will start next week to put together the first geological map  of earth in a bid to better understand the planet.
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WASHINGTON -- In late May, a NASA-funded robot successfully navigated one of the world's deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a prelude to a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, believed to contain a liquid water ocean.
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A huge underwater oil field discovered late last year has the potential to transform Brazil into a sizable exporter and win it a seat at the table of the worldâs oil cartel.
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Scientists said Friday they are plotting the next move for the Mars rover Opportunity, which reached the edge of a deep and geologically rich crater last week after a marathon trek.
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.