"It is vital that the duty of care to safeguard our oceans is at the forefront of discussions." Nations at odds over future ...

KOCHI: Amid concerns from fishermen and scientists over allowing sand mining off the Kerala coast, the Union government has ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep ...

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world's rivers, streams and estuaries to a ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

A container ship hit a stationary U.S.-flagged oil tanker on Monday, forcing the crews to abandon ship. A search for a ...

The ocean is Earth’s last great mystery, a vast, uncharted world teeming with lifeforms we have yet to encounter. And now, scientists have uncovered a new ... Continue Reading → ...

In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife Island, looking for sharks, when they caught sight of something much ...

Discover more about sand mining, where it occurs, and why the process damages the environments in which it is carried out in ...

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...

The creatures are named for their bioluminescent lure (or esca). This modified dorsal fin ray can produce a glow used to fish (or angle) for prey in the dim depths of the sea. The bioluminescence is ...

One person described the fish as her “feminist Roman Empire”, in the sense of an inspirational obsession that filled the same ...