If all the Earth's land ice were to melt our oceans would rise 216 feet. So what would this mean for Asia’s coastlines? Just 3 feet of added sea level would eliminate up to 14,000 square feet of ...

However, new research suggests that people in Southeast Asia were mastering the deep seas tens of thousands of ... to fish in and travel across deep ocean waters as far back as 40,000 years ...

About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world’s oceans every year, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic being tipped into the sea every minute of every day.

The International Seabed Authority is meeting in Jamaica to thrash out the rules for deep-sea extraction. Read more at ...