President Donald Trump first set his sights on Canada and Greenland’s mineral resources. Now he’s eyeing the global seabed that holds vast troves of critical metals for green technologies but is ...

Scientists have discovered massive underground oceans trapped beneath Earth’s crust, potentially containing more water than all surface oceans combined—reshaping what we know about earthquakes, ...

New Caledonia this week imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone a rare and sweeping move ...

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Canadian company announced Tuesday that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the sea floor, sparking ...

The Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala - India's first mega transshipment container terminal - is the answer to a ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate ...

First, he took off his shoes. Then, with each step, the silent, square-jawed figure of Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, on the eve of ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to climate scientists.