Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth ...

The pressure from both additional need and higher prices means new sources for these minerals will have to be found, and there is a growing interest in exploring one possible untapped source: under ...

At the heart of this revelation lies a remarkable mineral called ... understanding of water’s physical states. The discovery of this massive underground ocean was made possible through the ...

This underground sea isn’t like the oceans we see. Instead, its water is trapped within a mineral called ringwoodite, buried deep in the mantle. This breakthrough is shaking up what we thought ...

They’ve sold soaps, sea salts and ... osmosis system. The water is desalinated, demineralized and then pushed through a UV filter to purify it before it’s stored and bottled.

A last-ditch approach to slow ocean acidification may involve spreading a mineral along coastlines to suck acidifying protons out of the water. As a potential solution, Francesc Montserrat of the ...

Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ocean's ridges, volcanic arcs, and tectonic plate boundaries, and on the flanks of seamounts, lie other types of mineral-rich ...

Deep-sea water (DSW) is a treasure trove of minerals such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium, which we require for important functions. Drinking DSW-derived mineral water could have numerous health ...

Seawater is known for being quite salty. Salt in the sea, or ocean salinity, is mainly caused by rain washing mineral ions from the land into water. Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, ...