The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Damage to sensitive sea floor ecosystems sparks calls for tighter regulation of the tourist ship industry in the Antarctic ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans "become the wild west", at the ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

Seamounts support marine life but face damage from bottom trawling, releasing massive underwater carbon stores.

A local man’s unsuccessful search for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane more than 85 years years after it disappeared ...

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN. A ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

A groundbreaking underwater desalination technology promises to address the global water scarcity affecting half of the world ...