Sri Lanka needs to build awareness, effective policies and encourage regional multilateral frameworks to develop a ...

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson ...

Abstract: Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor array plays a significant role in in situ and long-term monitoring of seabed terrain deformation. However, multisource errors in the monitoring ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is planning to review a list of bills this week, including legislation to block offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, expand seabed mining ...

Greenpeace along with iwi and environmental groups are calling the decision to reject Trans-Tasman Resources’ proposal to mine the Taranaki seafloor a massive win for people power and the ocean. In a ...

Japan's drilling-equipped research vessel Chikyu before its departure from Shimizu port to conduct a test recovery of rare-earth–rich mud near Minamitori Island, marking the world's first attempt to ...

A group representing the mining sector insists the decision declining plans to mine the Taranaki seabed is not final. While the fast-track approvals panel turned down Trans-Tasman Resources' (TTR) bid ...

President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places Trump has sought to open to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, as the country seeks to reduce its ...