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 ...

For years, the public face of ocean pollution has been the same: floating bottles, drifting bags, and beaches littered with ...

The Atacama Trench, stretching over 3,700 miles in length and reaching depths of more than 26,000 feet, is a place of extremes. Here, the Nazca and South American tectonic plates collide in slow ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

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 ...

The founder of a company interested in harvesting rare minerals from the seafloor near the Marianas says he wants "high quality engagement" with communities in the region, and that new ...

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

PHIVOLCS records 760+ tremors off Sultan Kudarat. Dr. Teresito Bacolcol explains the role of the Cotabato Trench.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

As Trump considers buying Greenland, the island grapples with hazardous US military waste and environmental liabilities.

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

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.