Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Analysts believe deep-sea mining could realise $17 trillion in profits — but little thought is given to the net environmental ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Jellyfish are well known for their ability to multiply en masse and influence coastal ecosystems. But what is less known is ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

For a second time, Greenpeace activists have confronted a bottom trawler off New Zealand’s east coast, rebranding it an ‘ocean killer’ in protest against bottom trawling ...