The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

and pollution. In response to this discovery, Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Lisa Levin, who wasn’t involved with the ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Some 62,000 people and 56,000 homes on and near the New Jersey Shore will see at least one annual flood because of sea-level ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Without a strong, active EPA, efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay are likely to stall, reversing years of slow but steady ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Hundreds of researchers have also called for a pause on deep-sea mining until scientists learn ... eliminate sediment plumes and reduce noise pollution, though the technique hasn't been tested ...

CAIRO (AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians ...

air pollution. Gagné and colleagues showed that sulfate aerosol particles, which are released by the burning of fossil fuels, may have disguised the impact of greenhouse gases on Arctic sea ice. These ...

A sharp reduction in the amount of sulfur pollution emitted by ships has reduced ... lanes in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Chris Wright at the University of Washington in Seattle ...