A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

Underwater avalanches, or "submarine landslides," might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but they’re a real danger ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Japan will try to mine the seabed in its Exclusive Economic Zone. Like the United States, India and Australia, Japan wants to ...

Because they are the cradle of life and a climate shield. Because when the ocean thrives, so do we – and right now, they're ...

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

Giant bodies of sand found under the North Sea flip the rules of geology and may reshape how experts approach underground ...