As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

Japan’s METI and JAMSTEC have successfully retrieved rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres below the Pacific Ocean. This world-first mission could strengthen Japan’s technology and energy ...

The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, ...

Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape ...

The Trump administration argues that opening America’s seafloor to deep-sea mining is essential for strengthening our economy and securing our energy future.

A new international study has uncovered hundreds of previously unknown species living deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, shining ...

NASA has taken images of an incredible phytoplankton display around the Chatham Islands where warm and colder water converge ...

The world is warming and most people notice it on extremely hot days or when they have to pay the electricity bill in summer. However scientists have stated ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Industry leaders recently testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee to discuss regulatory and statutory ...