The Trump administration is preparing an historic executive order to reassert American leadership on the new mineral frontier ...

It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...

Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of ...

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

New York (AFP) – A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US ...

Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow deep-sea mining -- much ... 50 years of offshore oil and gas experience ...