It’s an organic gem like a pearl. But instead of residing in a shell, this Hawaii gem grows slowly like a miniature tree deep ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions ...

Hayden Vega, a marine science major from Long Beach, is graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a deep commitment to ocean conservation and ...

Conservationists say Sir David Attenborough would be “mortified” by images of six tonnes of coral caught in a single trawl net off New Zealand’s east coast ...

The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a ...

The Chatham Rise, east of Christchurch, where a trawler bought up 6,000kg of protected stony coral at the end of 2024, was ...