An active underwater volcano in the the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast is predicted to erupt in 2025. Here's what to know.

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...

Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

The ocean is teeming with life. But unless you get up close, much of the marine world can easily remain unseen. That's because water itself can act as an effective cloak: Light that shines through the ...

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

For millennia, Pacific voyagers have relied on techniques such as these to reach thousands of islands, strewn throughout our planet’s largest ocean. They did so without Western instruments. Instead, ...

The underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is heading to eruption for the first time in a ...