For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass in the ...

BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday named the companies that will be able to export tungsten, antimony and silver during the 2026 and 2027 period, metals Beijing deems as critical to support ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is raising the alarm over surging silver prices as China prepares to impose new export restrictions on the precious metal. Musk responded to a post on his X social media platform ...

China will implement a steel export licensing system, the country’s Ministry of Commerce said, in what could be a bid to tame record shipments of the metal flowing out the country. Exporters will have ...

President Donald Trump announced on December 8 that the United States would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chip—a critical piece of technology in the artificial intelligence (AI) race—to China ...

China suspended export restrictions on several rare earth elements, processing technologies, lithium battery materials, and other items announced on Oct. 9, 2025. The rollback also extended to curbs ...

A weather phenomenon called "The Blob" could have a major impact on Chicago's winter forecast, but what is it exactly? While it may be the title of a famed horror movie, this version of "The Blob" isn ...

Chicago-area residents aren’t strangers to tough winters, but could a phenomenon called “The Blob” make things snowier and colder than usual? “The Blob” is of course the title of a famed horror movie, ...

Something strange is happening in the Pacific Ocean. South of Alaska, sea surface temperatures started surging well above average this summer. The "warm blob" is back, and it has implications for ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The ...