News

Environmental groups fear Trump’s order to speed deep-sea mining will harm ecosystems
Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...
Trump sparks row with deep-sea mining order
Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
The Trump Administration Wants Seafloor Mining. What Does That Mean?
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...
The World's Oldest Shipwrecks Are in the Black Sea. Here's Why
There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...
‘Fragile’ creatures — covered in bristles — found as new ocean species. See them
The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...
Joey Antonelli on MSN2d
I Sent a Camera to the Bottom of the Ocean with Bait - Offshore Fishing
What really happens deep beneath the surface? This offshore fishing trip gets a high-tech twist as a baited camera reveals ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
A cross section of a manganese crust at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 Over the next ten years, Hovland’s constant access to the deep sea gave ...
Goodwood12h
A sub-aquatic future beckons with these luxurious underwater worlds
Deep, a collective of pioneering ocean explorers from Chepstow, is poised to revolutionise subsea research, marine ...
The National Interest on MSN16h
What’s a Surfer Dude’s Car Doing Beside the Wreck of the USS Yorktown?
Recent explorations of the wreck of the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean uncovered a downed aircraft, and, ...
CNN on MSN5d
Scientists stumble across rare evidence that Earth is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada
Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...