While investigating the origin of the rings, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Laurent Ballesta and his team found a riot of colorful sea life, including yellow coral that is seldom ...

Saving the oceans from coral bleaching, plastic pollution, ghost gear, sonar disrupting whale navigation, coral trampled by ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

“It’s the unknown,” says Erich Hoyt, author of Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live In. “You look out on the ocean and you might see a dolphin ...

The oil-and-gas and deep-sea-mining industries require extensive knowledge, and they pay for it. But, with a few exceptions, the characteristics of the deepest trenches are largely unknown.

The tool—developed by KAUST in partnership with SHAMS, General Organization for the Conservation of Coral Reefs and Turtles in the Red Sea—could aid conservation management and policymaking by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A local educator is joining a renowned expedition team on a mission to explore deep-sea biology and geology, while bringing the experience home to the community.

US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at advancing the deep-sea mining industry. This directive mandates the US government to accelerate the review of seabed mining ...

Specifically, at an UNCLOS conference in 1983, the United States asserted that the treaty’s “deep sea-bed mining regime…is purely contractual in character” and that seabed mining “is a ...

And spoiler alert, it wasn't a deep sea monster. The vastness of the ocean continues to fascinate many, and with only around 0.001 percent of the deep seafloor having been explored (according to a ...

He brings over 15 years of exploration and production experience, as both an investor and operator, along with deep relationships across the US.” The investor group, which TMC described as ...

In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...