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 ...

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

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

This video is about a duet between the atmosphere and the ocean, one that reaches around the entire world and has shaped ...

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, ...

An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may ...

Last month, Mexico and the United States experienced yet another devastating hurricane. In 12 hours, Hurricane Milton went from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm – the most extreme level there is.

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 ...