People living in the Pacific nation are divided on whether to push ahead with deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules.

Dr Sandor Mulsow, a Chilean professor of marine geology, argues the risky practice could have disastrous impacts on the environment and future generations, arguing more time and research is ...

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A crucial ocean layer essential to the dynamics of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A recent study published in the ...

Facing erasure due to climate change, the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu is digitally backing up everything from its houses ...

Trying to predict the scale and location of future dead zones, scientists have looked to the past for historical clues. Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, ...

Pacific island nations at the centre of a strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China that brought infrastructure and ...

Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the ...

By current estimates, 50% of Tuvalu’s capital Funafuti – home to half the population – will be lost to rising sea levels by ...

The gold in the oceans The Pacific Ocean covers close to a third of the ... who are opposed to deep-sea mining in the Cook Islands. Future proofing or a fatal error? Off the coast of Rarotonga ...