The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press ...

Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal regions everywhere, but especially for islands. No example stands out more than the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. But as Kathleen Schuster reports from our ...

One crew member is missing, presumed dead, while more than 30 people have been rescued after a cargo ship, the Solong, struck an oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate, in the North Sea off the east ...

London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley ...

An oil tanker and cargo ship collided in the North Sea off the coast of East Yorkshire on Monday morning, forcing crew members to abandon ship. Both vessels burst into flames after the crash about ...