The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain ...

Kitsissut is a nightmare for modern sailors. It’s a remote cluster of islands in the High Arctic, choked by fog, battered by shifting winds, and hemmed in by lethal currents. Most people (even ...

It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team studying the current toils to bring clarity.

Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030, but is it a possible endeavour – and what have they found so far?

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more ...

Bigger than any waterfall on land, this hidden ocean giant flows silently beneath the sea, unseen by human eyes, yet it plays a powerful role in shaping Earth's climate and ocean currents.

The Atlantic Ocean's 'conveyer belt' might be slowing down - and scientists are rushing to figure out why.

Yet the mood among China’s Arctic researchers was subdued as they gathered in early February for two conferences in Tromso in ...

Earth’s oceans absorbed another record volume of heat in 2025, reinforcing a pattern that climate scientists say is ...

My summer trip to the world’s largest island was as stylish as it was adventurous ...