"As you take in a beautiful view of the ocean, do you think of sound?" writes columnist Lisa Wooninck. "There is a lot of it ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.

The Flower Garden Banks are home to one of the most active dive units in all of NOAA. Because of the inherent risks, the NOAA ...

But seafaring nations may be entering a new era Last week, the Trump administration responded definitively with a new ...

President Donald Trump first set his sights on Canada and Greenland’s mineral resources. Now he’s eyeing the global seabed that holds vast troves of critical metals for green technologies but is ...

President Donald Trump has issued an order aimed at opening America's waters to deep sea mining. Here's what the impact could ...

About Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. is a deep-ocean exploration pioneer that provides access to critical mineral resources. The company uses innovative methods ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on fisheries management and oceans governance under the second Trump administration, ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...