Mining Gold and Copper in the Bismark Sea? July 11, 2012 | New York Times "The prospectors — motivated by dwindling resources on land as well as record prices for... Mining Asteroids? April 25, 2012 | Planetary Resources "Planetary Resources, Inc. announced today its plan to mine Near-Earth Asteroids for raw materials [...].... Arizona Metal Mining March 19, 2012 | ArizonaExperience.org Arizona as a State ranks #1 for its copper production, #2 for molybdenum, #5 for... Microbes Deep in the Oceanic Crust January 12, 2012 | National Science Foundation "Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and... Russian Runoff and Arctic Ocean Salinity January 4, 2012 | NASA "A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice... An Unlikely Ocean-Floor Cable Partnership February 29, 2012 | Patch.com Could a partnership between a commercial telecommunications company planning an undersea cable across the Pacific... USGS: Arctic Ocean Acidification Study August 27, 2012 | USGS "The Arctic Ocean is one of the most vulnerable places on the planet for acidification,... Sampling a Subsurface Ocean on Europa March 11, 2013 | NASA "If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be... |