Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.

The researchers suggested the amber had likely been swept into the ocean by one or more tsunamis, with little contact with ...

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

This groundbreaking research, published in Scientific Reports, suggests that massive waves carried amber, the fossilized ...

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests ...

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

Companies and some countries have long pushed to mine the potentially lucrative deep-sea deposits. The order would ... Scientists warn that mining the deep ocean, the planet’s least known ...