The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget ...

Norway has decided not to move forward with deep-sea mining activities following budget negotiations within the minority ...

In the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, small shrimp-like crustaceans called krill (Euphausia superba) swim in swarms of ...

Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea ...

Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the ...

Japan has made an extraordinary discovery off the coast of Minami-Tori-shima Island, a small, isolated piece of land in the ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

A team of ocean explorers discovered what they hoped was Amelia Earhart's missing plane. It turned out to be a rock formation ...

The sonar image, captured 100 miles west of Howland, appeared to confirm one of the more popular theories, that she crashed ...

After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia's Electra 10E," the exploration ...

Frozen methane hydrates are trapped inside subsea permafrost and mixed with sediments across the deep ocean floor. Warming waters and rising temperatures destabilize the hydrates and release the ...