Swimming with humpback whales, catching 30kg+ wahoo and tuna, scuba diving or snorkelling in gin-clear water, and nighttime ...

This pioneering project is attracting global interest as it focuses on ecological benefits while minimizing its carbon ...

Cloud, underwater cameras, GPS, and 4G technologies are breathing life into the degraded coral system off the coast of Mauritius Coral reefs are present in under 1% of the world's oceans, yet they ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

NEW YORK - The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed mining took an unexpected turn on March 27 when a company disclosed it had been confidentially negotiating a plan with ...

Bates/Grist) The United Nations body in charge of overseeing mineral extraction from the international seafloor, known as the ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. It was produced by Grist and co ...

SINGAPORE, March 27 (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

To many people, a rock is just a rock. If anyone has been house shopping, you know how realtors will mention that the countertops are "granite" and you might wonder why, from house to house, they all ...