In this piece TASS FACTBOX editors review the international legal status of this region. The Arctic is the northern polar region of the Earth, including the outskirts of the continents of Eurasia and ...

Engraved over 20 millennia ago, it intertwines ritual, symbolism, and water management in a stunning display of prehistoric ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

Antarctica’s ice shelves are rapidly thinning due to warm water flowing beneath them, a process accelerated by decreasing sea ...

La Niña Definition La Niña is one half of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle—when the east-central tropical ...

A team of geophysicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a baffling discovery while analyzing earthquake waves to ...

In 2024, air temperatures and ocean temperatures once again reached record highs. According to climate researchers, ocean ...

NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – A Navajo high school teacher is bringing the ocean to the New Mexico desert. Kim Etsitty is a science ...

Let’s begin the new year with a geography lesson. Geography and journalism were my favorite classes in school so writing about geography makes me happy. You can also win a ...

It’s the Newest Ocean on the Map For centuries, cartographers and scientists debated whether the waters surrounding ...

It can be easier to change the name of a landmark or body of water is within a country's boundaries. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama approved an order from the Department of Interior to rename ...

In a sweeping environmental decision during the final days of his presidency, President Biden on Monday banned new offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of America's oceans, including ...