Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

Until the 1970’s people thought the deepest parts of the ocean were devoid of life- then hydrothermal vents were discovered ...

UC Santa Cruz coastal scientist Gary Griggs sees a scientific mystery in two lost-and-found class rings — including one ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Attenborough ignores pollution; he ignores crashing plankton populations, microplastics, and the economics that drive ...

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...

Their study found that nearly 27% of the city's plastic goes unmanaged every year — around 70,000 tons of it, the Daily Sun ...

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The 'Operation Crayweed' hopes to restore the habitats of Australia's coastlines by replanting this vital seaweed.

For a second time, Greenpeace activists have confronted a bottom trawler off New Zealand’s east coast, rebranding it an ‘ocean killer’ in protest against bottom trawling ...