As the result of my letter on “Continents and Oceans”, which appeared in NATURE for Nov. 30, several correspondents have directed my attention to Lothian Green's ‘tetrahedral hypothesis’. This ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...

The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the origin of life on Earth, and potential habitability of other Earth-like planets.

Geologists have long been captivated by the Indian Ocean's "gravity hole," where the Earth's gravitational pull weakens, its mass falls, and sea levels drop by about 328 feet (100 meters). After years ...

Cleaning up our oceans will be no easy task. Plastics are more prevalent than ever, and thousands of miles of microplastic soup is an unprecedented mess. And it’s everywhere-- microplastics are ...

FARGO — Over the next couple of decades, the most expensive attribute of global climate change is likely to be the cost of storm damage and mitigation from sea level rise. To help raise intelligence ...

Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of culture and politics in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has lived in Turkey for nearly a ...

Despite global warming and the sea-ice loss in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea-ice extent has remained largely unchanged since 1979. However, existing climate model-based simulations indicate ...

In 2023, Florida saw record-breaking ocean temperatures, alarming scientists and causing severe damage to the state’s coral reefs. And even though it’s only spring, waters are warming up. “As far as ...