A new home for one of a port's last surviving deep-sea trawlers is expected to open to visitors next year. The visitor centre ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid.

Join us on an exhilarating adventure into the Polar High Seas as we dive deep into the challenges and thrills of fishing in the icy Arctic waters. This video showcases radical fishing techniques ...

Norway is inviting comments on Arctic seabed areas it plans to offer for deep sea mining ahead of formally awarding permits for the first time. The Nordic country is one of the first to take a ...

A ship passes through glaciers near Norway’s Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Ocean. Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The debate over deep-sea mining has touched on a contradiction in ...

A coalition of over 1,000 scientists has taken the occasion of this week’s U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice to call for a global ...

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 ...

The crucial conference in France comes after Trump ordered the US to pursue deep-sea mining with potentially damaging ...

BERGEN, Norway — It’s been nearly five months since the Norwegian government paused its controversial plans to launch deep-sea mining in Arctic waters. This proposed industry aims to generate ...

Analysis of samples from an expedition to the Arctic Ocean suggest that marine ... researchers looked to sea-dwelling actinobacteria for new antibiotics. The sea-dwelling microbes are thought ...

Just as on land there are deserts, grasslands, rainforests and the arctic, so too in the deep sea there are numerous different ecosystems that differ by geography, temperature and the animals that ...