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HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry said Tuesday it was banning dealings by Chinese companies with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean in the latest swipe by Beijing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to rebuild the industry in America. The ministry also announced that it was investigating a probe by Washington into China’s growing dominance in …

A hull section that will be sent to the final assembly base is loaded onto a semi-submersible vessel at Hanwha Marine Engineering (Shandong) Co LTD in Yantai, China, on September 16, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China on Tuesday added five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to its sanction list over their alleged involvement in …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌊 Scientists have uncovered a massive low-salinity aquifer beneath the Atlantic Ocean. 🔬 The discovery was made possible through advanced electromagnetic imaging techniques. 🚰 This aquifer could provide a sustainable freshwater source for millions of people. 🌍 The finding prompts new discussions on future water resource management strategies. In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a vast …

Something may be stirring in the world’s largest oceanic current. New research suggests that this vast conveyor belt of cold water around the South Pole could shift its location over the coming centuries, if not millennia, potentially reshaping the planet’s climate and ecosystems. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is a vast current of cold seawater that flows clockwise from west …

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. Huge amounts of methane lie in reservoirs that have formed over millennia beneath the seafloor around the world. This invisible, climate-polluting gas can …

Scientists studying clam and cockle shells have found signs that the currents in the Atlantic Ocean may be approaching a “tipping point”, which could have significant consequences for climate patterns. The researchers studied the layers of quahog clam and dog cockle shells to find out about past oceanic conditions and understand how patterns in two ocean current systems – the Atlantic …

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively recent past. Earlier this year, a team of scientists in Germany discovered a strange spike in beryllium-10 in the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. This radioactive isotope forms when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere. From there it falls, sinks …

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn’s moon Mimas continues to build. Research mapping the thickness of the world’s icy crust not only provides a window for how old an existing ocean might be but also probes where the crust might be at its thinnest — the perfect spot for future missions to detect the ocean. At the same …

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. Huge amounts of methane lie in reservoirs that have formed over millennia beneath the seafloor around the world. This invisible, climate-polluting gas can …

How can we predict the future? A good way is to look into the past, and who better to ask than one of Earth’s longest-living animals: the quahog clam. These modest mollusks don’t look like much, but their shells tell a staggering story as they store a record of the environmental conditions across their lifespan. For quahog clams, that can …