An autonomous ocean robot, launched from Woods Hole, is attempting to complete a first-ever trip around the world.

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As we continue to assess the toll left by Hurricane Melissa, one thing is clear: what we know so far confirms a scientific ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Jianjun from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

With its sand dunes, oyster shacks, and off-duty A-listers, Cap Ferret is known as the French Hamptons—but the reality is far ...