Researchers at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment found that ocean saltiness can influence the strength of El Niño, a climate ...

Half the world’s coral reefs were hit hard by extreme ocean heat, and an even more severe bleaching crisis is happening right ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

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

The bloom, caused by multiple species of the tiny dinoflagellate Karenia – a genus of planktonic organisms that drift in water columns – turns seawater a sickly colour, and produces a mucky foam that ...

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute have identified a massive undersea peak along the Salas y Gomez Ridge in the southeastern Pacific, a formation that rises higher from the ocean floor than ...

Escaping the noise of everyday life feels harder than ever. That’s what makes this stretch of California coastline hit so differently. Tucked along the legendary cliffs of Big Sur sits a park where ...

Record warm winter-to-date continues across most of the West; already abysmal mountain snowpack dips to record low levels in many areas ...

Yesterday, an international team of researchers from various disciplines set off aboard the German research vessel METEOR for an expedition along the west coast of Africa, led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz ...

While you’re drinking, alcohol causes blood vessels to dilate, bringing blood to the surface of the skin. That’s why people ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

A huge canyon in Pondok Balik village in Aceh has been growing since 2011 and threatens roads and crops due to underground erosion.