An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles (21km) off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions and a huge plume of black ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Scientists have captured photos of litter at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a trench 16,771ft (5,112m) below the surface of ...

New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.

The toxic soup that could be spreading into the North Sea isn’t just an environmental disaster, it’s a direct threat to our shoreline.” Chris McClean has surfed along the east coast of the UK for the ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-metre-deep Calypso Deep ...

Overfishing, the oil industry and the wind sector have turned the North Sea into a ‘battered industrial landscape’, environmentalists ...

North Channel Wind says Northern Ireland has taken a step forward in its journey towards 100% clean energy following the ...