The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

"On the very day that Prime Minister Luxon is spruiking his pro-investment qualifications at his own Infrastructure Summit, a ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

A groundbreaking study has found one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever found at the Mediterranean Sea’s deepest point. Researchers discovered ­plastic, glass, metal and paper on ...

Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say ...

European Energy and TotalEnergies have taken the next step by launching three vessels to conduct seabed surveys in the area surrounding the planned Jammerland Bugt offshore wind farm, located betwee.

Pressure on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to finalize and adopt regulations for deep-sea mining is increasing.

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

THE wreckage of the doomed Bayesian superyacht is set to be salvaged from the sea bed to find the key clues in the mystery ...