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

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

The more we explore and protect the ocean, the more we benefit, whether in the form of economic returns or scientific ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

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

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

Jellyfish are well known for their ability to multiply en masse and influence coastal ecosystems. But what is less known is ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

For a second time, Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have confronted a bottom trawler off the East Coast, rebranding it an "ocean ...

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

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

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 ...