As the National Green Tribunal clears the Rs 81,000 crore port and defence project on the island, environmentalists fear the ...

New Zealand's earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

Comets are a trickier prospect. The first spots of direct evidence, collected in the 1990s by the Giotto spacecraft and later ...

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The deep ocean is about as mysterious as the depths of outer space, and it's home to some bizarre finds, from tiny angelic creatures to giant worms.

Geologists have mapped a massive freshwater aquifer system buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off the U.S. East Coast, with an estimated volume so large that some popular comparisons suggest it ...

Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

A deep-sea camera captured the first-ever shark recorded in Antarctic waters — a 10- to 13-foot sleeper shark swimming 1,608 feet below the surface.

The ocean depths are a vast, mysterious frontier that has captivated human imagination and scientific inquiry for centuries. Despite advances in technology, much of this aquatic abyss remains ...

A new search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is officially underway on Tuesday morning in the southern Indian Ocean. More than a decade after the plane vanished, investigators are again scanning ...

(CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.