Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...

Trump may be unlikely to gain dominion over Canada or Greenland, but he’s vying to supersede the UN treaty that governs ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to approve its plans to mine the international ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

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, ...

Deep sea mining, however, may not be the only way the U.S. hopes to ramp up its mineral supply. The Trump Administration has ...