New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

Across continents and disciplines, officials are warning that a strange convergence of environmental, technological, and ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Silversea has officially launched its 2026 World Cruise, “The Curious and the Sea,” a 140‑day voyage on Silver Dawn that ...

Floods and droughts across the globe are moving in sync, and a powerful Pacific climate cycle is pulling the strings.

The expansion of Arctic shipping, scramble for seafloor mining and overfishing are all straining international relationships.