The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

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

Far below the familiar blue of the surface oceans, geophysicists are piecing together evidence for a vast, hidden reservoir ...

U.S. lawmakers are worried about security threats toward global networks of subsea fiber-optic cables that power ...

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

U.S. lawmakers are concerned about security threats toward global networks of subsea fiber-optic cables that power ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

A giant continent, bigger than India, vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean for centuries, and the world didn’t even notice. Now ...

From left to right: Dr. Daniela Much, Prof. Marsha Campbell-Yeo, Dr. Titus Keller, Dr. Leon Mitoulas, and Prof. Sarah Taylor during the first panel discussion at Medela’s Global Symposium Europe ...

For centuries, sailors and wine merchants knew Madeira as a remote stop between Europe and the New World. Its steep green cliffs, laurel forests and terraced farms shaped the lives of those who lived ...

We know surprisingly little about Earth’s deep seafloor – only a small percentage has been mapped in detail. There are better maps of the Moon’s surface than of the bottom of Earth’s ocean. Ships with ...