In the same week as the US Government moved to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for mineral extraction, ...

F or the very first time, scientists have captured live footage of the painted swellshark ( Cephaloscyllium pictum) — a super-elusive, blotchy catshark that until now had only been known from unlucky ...

Jordan Robins is an ocean photographer with a spectacular collection of sea life photos. Many of his images uniquely capture ...

Five thousand meters beneath the Pacific Ocean is a deep-sea mining hotbed and a swarm of odd creatures that need protecting.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that aims to alter how colleges and universities are accredited ...

An Indian company that spreads crushed rock on farmers’ fields to help draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

Four thousand metres below the surface of the Tasman Sea lies a mysterious and alien world. Deep within the Bass Canyon — an 80-kilometre-long yawning gash in the sea floor off Victoria's coast ...

(Reuters) - The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the ...

According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.

Deep-sea mining doesn’t have international rules governing how minerals found on the ocean floor could be harvested despite more than a decade of debate, and that is pushing some companies to ...