The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

Tsunamis form from sudden water movements, mainly undersea earthquakes, spreading waves across oceans and increasing as they ...

Tiny ocean wave vibrations from the Gulf of Alaska — too subtle for humans to notice — can travel through land as far north ...

Along certain parts of the ocean ... closed around the surface successfully. Some of the other operators are looking at trying to more or less hoover, vacuum up the material from the floor.

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes in the water column where many creatures live.

Scientists aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy have identified a potential underwater volcano while mapping the seafloor off Alaska’s coast ... that shapes the ocean floor.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The powerful earthquake ... If this is large enough and closer to the ocean floor, the energy from the earthquake can cause the ocean floor to suddenly rise or fall.

But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between Japan's philanthropic Nippon Foundation and GEBCO, a non-profit ...

High-density, lush and diverse coral “gardens” thrive off the central and western Aleutian Islands, while “forests” of red tree corals that grow to up to 10 feet tall are found off southeast Alaska ...