Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals. Critics fear harm to fragile marine ecosystems. The WWF ...

A Ngāti Ruanui trustee has disrupted a meeting of would-be South Taranaki seabed miners in Sydney, telling shareholders that ...

Off the coast of Blekinge, in southern Sweden, at a depth of around 50–60 meters, the bottom sediment has scars that are tens ...

South Taranaki leaders say the Government is wrong to claim would-be seabed miners are being held up by tikanga Māori. Shane ...

Plastic pollution is an ever-pressing concern for the health of our ocean ecosystems and their inhabitants, with estimates of ...

Concurrently, efforts are underway to develop La Coloma as an alternative passenger transport route to the Isla de la ...

In a discovery that’s got economists cheering and environmentalists reeling, Japan has struck gold - or rather, cobalt and ...

Grays Bay would make numerous mining projects potentially feasible, if the funding for the infrastructure can be found ...

NZ First campaigned on trying to get New Zealand's enormous ocean "exclusive economic zone" recognised in the country's climate accounts.

Despite the crowds milling about, you can discern both Levin’s expertise in her field — and her empathy for it. She says, ...

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but less is known about the sediments of the ocean floor. Two recent “blue ...

Fishermen returning to port with smaller catches complain that they have already lost out. The dredging of the port — which sucked sediment from the seabed to create a shipping channel 17 meters (56 ...