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

New Zealand wants to increase renewable electricity projects such as wind and solar to reduce thermal generation.

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

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

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

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

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

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.

The film shows the seabed littered with thousands of dead fish, shellfish, and critically endangered flapper skate. Environmentalists say it is an insight into the true environmental cost of ...

HONG KONG—China is rapidly expanding ocean exploration in waters far beyond its shores, sending out a fleet of vessels whose research offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands ...

Detailed scanning of the seabed, for instance, can provide information about the visibility of naval mines and the accuracy of sonar. The surveys can also help determine what minerals could be ...