One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

Around the UK, hundreds of marine protected areas (MPAs) appear on maps as blue sanctuaries for ocean life. In theory, these ...

In just seven years, nearly four-fifths of the bay's fish that live in the pelagic zone—neither close to the sea-bed nor the shore—have vanished. This is not a routine decline. It is a collapse—rapid, ...

Plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now supporting thriving marine ecosystems.

Waste plumes from deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean could starve key marine life and unravel entire food webs in the ocean’s dim “twilight zone,” according to a groundbreaking study published ...

Net Loss — TMC the metals company ( TMC 8.33%) reported a net loss of $184.5 million (46¢ per share), a widening from $20.5 million (6¢ per share) in the same quarter last year, primarily driven by a ...

An OceanGate whistleblower testified during a United States Coast Guard hearing into the deadly 2023 implosion of the Titan that he had "no confidence" in the way the experimental submersible was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...