According to the monitoring agency, the quake hit at 11:06 p.m. Philippines time, striking off the coast of PNG at a depth of 53 kilometers.

(AP) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government will launch offshore "blue carbon" research aimed at capturing carbon dioxide through cultivated sea plants and storing it in the deep sea to ...

Papua New Guinea’s state-owned mining company will pay at least $60 million to ASX-listed Kingston Resources for control of a major gold development and exploration project in the Solomon Sea.

Two children have been diagnosed with polio in PNG. It's the first outbreak in the country since 2018, when an outbreak was eradicated the same year. The World Health Organization (WHO ...

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery, particularly the deep diving whales. But scientists are learning more ...

It was an unceremonious end to the 58-year-old vessel that had fallen into disrepair under the private ownership of Anthony Roy Wolfe, after being offloaded by Sea Swift in October 2020.

New Delhi, Feb. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global commercial seaweed market was valued at US$ 12.90 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 16.58 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 2 ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. A scientist in Japan made a ...

Small fish, crabs, starfish, sea plants and maybe even an octopus can be found in rockpools. You can ask your child: How many different animals can you see? You can also search for barnacles that ...

This masthead has discovered that the PNG government is now in talks with a corporation partly owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch to revive a project to mine Binns’ smoker. If production ...

Critics say the operation was illegal and that DSMF’s activities flout two ongoing moratoria that should prevent deep-sea mining in PNG’s territorial waters. On the other hand, a national ...