With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed a colossal reserve of freshwater, estimated at 670 cubic miles, concealed beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This revelation, achieved through ...

Another source of critical minerals is seafloor massive sulfides, which form near hydrothermal vents along oceanic ridges. Volcanic activity reacts with seawater, fueling bursts of marine life at ...

In the deep ocean, where sunlight never reaches, and food drifts down like confetti, survival is less about speed and more about strategy. Take, for example, the tripod fish, a creature that can swim ...

Even as opposition grows and the U.S. territory maintains a moratorium on seabed mining, NOAA began a $20 million survey of ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Kona Deep, the Hawaii-based bottled water company, will launch its namesake brand in the continental United States beginning in March. Already widely distributed in its hometown state of Hawaii, the ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.