The ocean has many treasures. The biggest treasure of all time was just found at the bottom of the ocean, and now President ...

"This is a lengthy process, but I believe our government will initiate the process." Businesses and activists left in limbo as government weighs controversial deep-sea plan: 'The last true wilderness ...

Only 1.5% of coral habitat in the world is considered pristine, so the protection of the seabed is one of the most robust ...

Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded ...

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

Donald Trump's executive order circumvents the International Seabed Authority's control of international waters. Mining ...

Autonomous robotic organizations (AROs) are transforming ocean research and offshore work by coordinating drones, satellites, ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

Greenland lies across the most direct routes from Russia to the populous east coast of the US, and is the closest territory ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

Imagine AI-controlled robots that organize themselves into different groups, or across groups—and that reorganize themselves ...

Here are answers to three questions about the High Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior ...