The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

New Zealand wants to increase renewable electricity projects such as wind and solar to reduce thermal generation.

A groundbreaking study has found one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever found at the Mediterranean Sea’s ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

HONG KONG—China is rapidly expanding ocean exploration in waters far beyond its shores, sending out a fleet of vessels whose research offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands ...

New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say ...

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 ...