On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...

TOKYO -- Japan will extract rare earth minerals from an offshore deposit in a first-of-its-kind pilot project that will begin ...

Soft corals in the West Philippine Sea and Benham Bank in the Philippine Rise, which are under threat from China, are among ...

Purchasing seafood isn't just expensive, it's also loaded with questions around sustainability and health. This deep sea fish ...

It’s an organic gem like a pearl. But instead of residing in a shell, this Hawaii gem grows slowly like a miniature tree deep ...

For a second time, Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have confronted a bottom trawler off the East Coast, rebranding it an "ocean ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. coast. Researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off the ...

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given ...

They are followed by books that focus more closely on the interconnections between the oceans and climate change. Two books ...

Cold-water coral reefs also grow on underwater formations, said Victorero, who is a scientific advisor for the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, an alliance of more than 100 international ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a ...