Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

- The scientific evidence has been submitted to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) ...

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The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. is taking his campaign against deep-sea mining to a global stage, and his message for ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...