Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

Vowing to “counter China’s growing influence over seabed mineral resources,” the Trump administration is opening a new front ...

The whole thing is wild,” Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s head of research, Cherisse Du Preez, explained the discovery that ...

Applications for deep-sea mining permits in Brazil have soared in recent years: of the 950 requests filed since 1967, nearly ...

Last month, President Donald Trump said the United States needed Greenland “very badly,” renewing his threat to annex the Danish territory. Greenland is a resource-rich island with a plentiful supply ...

Extractive activity in international waters—including fishing, seabed mining, and oil and gas exploitation—should be banned ...

A simple rule that seems to govern how life is organized on Earth is described in a new study published in Nature Ecology & ...

Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?