This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

A strong storm brewing offshore is causing breaking waves over 30 feet in some areas and creating dangerous ocean conditions.

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

All central Florida Atlantic beaches are at a risk for rip currents this week, prompting meteorologists to issue alerts.

Initiatives such as building offshore wind farms for electricity, using ocean wave power for energy, or making sustainable aquaculture fish feed from algae are multiplying. A more sustainable use ...

What do you notice about the mass of biological (living) forms and mass of technological (man-made) forms on Earth? What do you wonder? By The Learning Network A teenager and a New York Times ...

We’ve now leanred that one of its lesser-known works, Ocean Waves, is finally getting a theatrical release more than 30 years after its debut. Originally released in 1993 as a made-for-TV film, Ocean ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.