A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows.

Published in April in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Chaknova's research shines a light on the implications of activities such as deep-sea mining, which can stir up sediment on the ocean floor.

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use of ...

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African continent in two, according to scientists. While a new ocean … ...

Deep Pulses Beneath Africa Are Breaking the Continent Apart, Creating a New Ocean Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that’s beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to ...

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.

An inquest has heard the heartbreaking steps a surfer took to avoid a shark attack while in Australian waters.

A new round of global negotiations over commercial deep sea mining is underway in Jamaica, with growing concern from ...

Object Details author Rogers, Alex Notes NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. Contents Prologue -- Rock pools : how I became obsessed with the ocean -- ...