Antarctica sits on a hotbed of methane gas. The cracks erupting in its seafloor are causing it to burst out and rise to the ...

The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

When Mike Papish, a diver and underwater photographer, first spotted Lenny — a 322-pound loggerhead sea turtle — he knew he needed to get him help. The turtle wasn’t using his front flipper, which was ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, wants his firm to be the first to commercially mine the ocean floor. He applauded a recent executive order signed by President Trump, which promotes deep-sea ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

Logging hasn't begun yet, but the Oregon-based company won a contract years ago to carry out the Chilkat Valley’s largest ...