I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea M ...

and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two ...

Nodules on the Pacific Ocean floor. Photo by the National Oceanography Centre. Heriot-Watt marine biologist Dr Mark Hartl and crew preparing equipment on the research vessel RSS James Cook.

Mining vehicle tracks from 1979 on the Pacific Ocean floor. Photo by the National Oceanography Centre. Heriot-Watt marine biologist Dr Mark Hartl and crew preparing equipment on the research ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...