More than a third of people from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu are seeking to move to Australia through an unprecedented climate visa scheme that opened last week. Signed by the two countries in ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

On July 3, 2025, researchers at Chester Zoo made a remarkable discovery in Cheshire, England. Cassowaries can communicate ...

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 ...

Cold-water corals, many of which live in the dark and nutrient-poor deep sea, are thought to rely on bacteria to convert nutrients or obtain energy from chemical compounds.

Scientists from the Southeastern states and other leading deep-sea ecologists have requested permanent protections for the region’s deep coral oases and the broader Blake Plateau ecosystem.

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought.

We are learning more about the deep-sea corals that live in waters about 100 miles off the South Carolina coast, as scientists continue mapping them and enlarging our understanding of their ...

Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest known deep-sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches from Miami, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina, ...