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Scientists Alarmed After Finding 'Highly Toxic' Goo Spread Across Earth's Ocean Floor ...

A team of ocean and climate researchers is calling for a new generation of carefully designed ocean iron fertilization (OIF) ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape the seabed for metals. Hundreds of newly described animals, from delicate ...

A shadow moves through the internet faster than any shark ever could: the claim that megalodons slipped into the Mariana ...

Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 metres (20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission.

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static—a massive, still abyss far removed ...

South Pacific tourism is evolving in 2026, from Guam’s strategic recovery led by the Guam Visitors Bureau to Fiji’s scale, Palau’s conservation leadership, and Polynesia’s cultural depth, revealing ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

In the inky blackness of the ocean’s most profound regions lies a realm so extreme and mysterious that it rivals the harshness of outer space. The hadal zone, encompassing ocean trenches deeper than 6 ...

Alex Brandon / AP The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes ...

The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 15, at the direction ...