With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

Polar regions have been most widely affected: Nearly 87% of the Southern Ocean, 84% of the North Pacific and 78% of the Arctic Ocean surface waters have passed the safe threshold.

CHANGCHUN, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Hemmed in by Russia's frozen coastline and the secluded mountains of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the small border city of Hunchun in northeast China ...

More information: Rob Williams et al, Noise from deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean will impact a broad range of marine taxa, Marine Pollution Bulletin (2025).

Parts of the Arctic are frequently free of sea ice in summer, although many shipping lines prefer to use “ice-class” vessels with extra-strong hulls. Many rely on Russian icebreakers, provided ...

More information: Jens Søndergaard et al, Stable isotopes unveil ocean transport of legacy mercury into Arctic food webs, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60356-6 ...

If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve, covering an area nearly as big as the Amazon Rainforest.

A flurry of tropical cyclone activity over the past two weeks in the eastern Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Mexico has produced three named storms so far — with more storms expected ...

Japan said it observed two Chinese aircraft carriers and supporting warships operating simultaneously near remote Japanese islands in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, a new demonstration of ...