Dubbed the “High Seas Treaty,” formally known as the Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), the treaty ...

The High Seas Treaty took effect Jan. 17, creating the first global framework to protect and manage the vast waters beyond national borders that cover more than 40 percent of the planet. Humanity ...

Global ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed trenching and survey operations on inter-array cables for a U.S.

For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national ...

Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes to whales.

According to researchers from Science Tokyo, a new three-dimensional model of the fault beneath the Marmara Sea in Turkey ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

A joint China-Chile expedition aims to explore a 435-mile stretch of the Atacama Trench, a massive subduction zone in the ...

Life in paradise can be hard. Paradise is a Greek word of Persian origin made famous by the Jewish bible: it comes from a mix of very different cultures. The word means a walled garden. The garden ...