Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Scientists from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for ...

By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

Today, Ratan free dives — descending up to 60m (197 feet) below the surface, depths that usually only technical divers can ...

While Hovland balanced his industry job and coral science in the deep sea, bottom trawl fishing was exploding in popularity in Norway. Wheeled “rock hopper” gear allowed ships to pull nets ...

and the largest in the Red Sea. Located in Difat Farasan, also known as the Farasan Bank near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the deep waters were found to be inhabited by corals, fish, and ...

Researchers from NOAA discovered a 1940 Ford Super Deluxe inside the wreck of the USS Yorktown, a World War II aircraft ...