Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

As policymakers meet in Jamaica to develop regulations for mineral exploitation in international waters, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala highlights what’s at stake for Pacific cultures.

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Even as opposition grows and the U.S. territory maintains a moratorium on seabed mining, NOAA began a $20 million survey of ...

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

Maralyn and Maurice initially set off with an attitude of wonder and reverence for nature — Maurice especially deplored the damage that humans unleash on the natural world — and yet they end up having ...

At the end of February, Mary Alice and I took our friends Nancy and Patrick Beebe down to the PA Game Commission’s Middle Creek Wildlife Area to see the snow geese that had stopped to rest and eat ...

For visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, seeing a rare tule elk is one of the highlights of any visit. Endemic to California, there are fewer than 6,000 of these majestic elk ...

The Samoan government has ordered a 300-metre radius ban around the Royal New Zealand Navy vessel, saying it poses significant risks to divers, fisherman and small craft.

As a child, Acadia Li would take her time wandering through Vancouver’s Pacific Spirit Park on her walk to and from elementary school.