Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

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

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

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

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Environmentalists and scientists worry the state’s rapidly growing space industry will devastate nearby ecosystems, while commercial fishers say space launches are sinking their businesses.

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

Rarely in modern times has the United States prepared to conduct a major act of war with so little explanation or public ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket's first stage successfully landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Blue Origin ...

In A Nutshell Antarctica, not the Indian Ocean, hosts Earth’s strongest nonhydrostatic geoid depression when scientists measure against a reference frame that isolates internal mantle dynamics The ...

Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean some 5 million years ago ...