President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

A new study from the University of Manchester and the United Kingdom's National Oceanography Centre has uncovered a hidden ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

The $1.8 million grant from the California Coastal Commission will help the city establish baseline data for its RE:BEACH project.

For the next eight weeks, the barge will dredge sand from the ocean floor and pump it towards the beaches in an effort to replace the 4 million cubic metres of sand washed away during the cyclone.

In 2019, a team of geologists led by Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte traveled to Easter Island to gather samples of sand and red soil ... unfolded long before the ocean floor around it even existed.