The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...

Despite this, scientific understanding of how Antarctic marine life is responding to this unprecedented warming scenario is ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

A giant crack is tearing through Africa—and it’s not slowing down. Hidden beneath the surface, a dramatic geological shift is ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Along a stretch of scorched desert in Ethiopia, the ground quietly opened one afternoon in 2005. A gash nearly 35 miles (56.33 km) long split the earth wide, as if the land had simply decided to give ...

Scientists have found that oceanic manta rays routinely make extreme dives of more than 1,200 meters – three-quarters of a mile – but it's not to feed, nor is it happening everywhere in deep water.

The Drake Passage is one of the most treacherous bodies of water in the world. That didn’t stop six voyagers from crossing it by rowboat in December 2019. For 600 miles, explorer Fiann Paul led a team ...

Chief Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University Nerilie Abram received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Ariaan Purich ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...