Protected regions of the ocean are doing their job and keeping illegal fishing at bay, according to new research combining ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Illegal fishing is a global problem that threatens the health of ocean ecosystems and the economic viability of the fishing ...

An ecosystem disrupted. While much about the production of dark oxygen is unknown, evidence has shown that areas of the sea that have been mined experience a severe loss of marine life.

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

The ocean is the world's greatest ecosystem, although it remains mostly undiscovered. This is due in part to the difficulties of ocean exploration, such as bone-crushing pressure and the ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Some 635 million years ago, as the Earth shook off massive shrouds of glacial ice, an alien world blossomed on the ocean floors. 600 Million Years Ago, the First Scavengers Lurked in Dark Ocean ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.