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Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...
Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...
Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...
By Isabelle Rodney, CNN (CNN) — The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef ...
To offset erosion from urchins, at least 26% of the reef surface must be covered by living corals – and even more coral cover is necessary for it to grow. Gregory Asner, an ecologist at Arizona State ...
The president has ordered the agency to swifty advance the approval of licenses and permits for exploring and mining deep-sea minerals.
One of three methane-eating, deep-sea spider species recently discovered off the Southern California coast.
Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming world than previously thought.  ...
World leaders have renewed calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining at the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, as the U.S. moves to mine the deep sea in international waters ...
China Reveals First Deep-Sea "Testing Site", Adding To Vast Network Of Marine Bases China now has these "testing facilities" in its north, south, east, and west oceans.
China's Meng Xiang drill ship aims to reach Earth's Moho, advancing deep-sea exploration and asserting maritime power in the South China Sea.
Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damaged 1,994 square kilometers (770 ...