New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship.

Professor Thomas Peacock’s research aims to better understand the impact of deep-sea mining.

Their carcasses and faeces are also important to the ocean.

America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater gardens.

New findings pave the way for improving wave forecasts, helping coastal communities become more resilient.

They could one day turn purple.

Researchers analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this approach has a comparable environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels.

Underwater waves could also be used to reduce the risks of tsunamis and to improve their early warning systems.

Moderate changes over millennia are being sped up by emissions from burning fossil fuels.