For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single ...

This cliffside forest island rises dramatically from the surrounding ocean, its dense canopy of trees forming a rich green crown above warm-toned rock walls. The shoreline is carved by relentless ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling ...

Experts said it is too early to be confident, but there are signals in the spread of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Hundreds created an anti-ICE banner in response to the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Africa is breaking apart along a giant crack that will form a new ocean between two large masses of land millions of years from now, the latest research shows. The split is taking place along the East ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...