When I sat down at my desk this morning I never expected to hear an anecdote about octopuses that would blow my mind. It came from speaking to Colin Butfield, the co-founder and director of Open ...

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Saya de Malha Bank is among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. THE MOST ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Imagine diving into a crystal-clear ocean and suddenly coming face-to-face with a bustling metropolis built not by humans, ...

The sea is not so different to the land, Attenborough finds, with underwater ... ocean floor and in striking detail from ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

The film is set to be released in cinemas on 8 May - the same day as the naturalist’s 99th birthday - before it is available ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...