Stone State Park sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, creating this amazing contrast. The park covers over 1,000 acres of ...

Stone State Park sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, creating this amazing view. The park covers over 1,000 acres of some of the most unique landscape in Iowa. Rolling hills covered in prairie ...

An oddly shaped deep-sea fish recently washed up on an Oregon beach, catching the attention of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium identified the fish as a longnose lancetfish.

Armed with just a micro fishing rod, we hooked into something totally unexpected — a strange and wild fish that left us ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ...

NOAA is charged with protecting, not imperiling, the ocean and its economic benefits, including fishing and tourism; and scientists agree that deep-sea mining is a deeply dangerous endeavor for ...

On April 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order aimed at fast-tracking deep-sea mining. The Executive Order on Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources ...

SpaceX launched a milestone mission on Sunday night (April 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites — including 13 with direct-to-cell capability ...

Kids at the Youth Fishing Clinic, hosted by Little Crow Anglers on Saturday, April 26, 2025, learned skills and safety necessary for engaging in the sport of fishing.

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. © Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

The body, which was first established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), has for nearly three decades struggled to come up with a regulatory framework for deep-sea mining that ...

“Evidence tells us that areas targeted for deep-sea mining often overlap with important fisheries, raising serious concerns about the impacts on the country’s US$321bn fishing industry.” Several ...