Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

As with any earthquake around a coastal region or on the ocean floor, there is great concern about the formation of a tsunami. A Tsunami is series of waves with a very large wavelength. Think of a ...

Thinner Arctic sea ice may affect global ocean circulation Date: March 31, 2025 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing ...

Eötvös is the unit of measure for the gravity-based data used to create these maps. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing ...

WHEN WE SAY WARM, WE MEAN OVER ZERO DEGREES THAT IT’S CIRCULATING AROUND THE ARCTIC OCEAN. IT COMES FROM THE ATLANTIC. AND IF THE WHAT WE CALL THE BATHYMETRY, THE SHAPE OF THE SEA FLOOR ALLOWS ...

A unique ocean vessel arrived in Liverpool this week ... particularly Antarctica and the Arctic. Before she was renamed as Tara, her former captain Sir Peter Blake was exploring the Amazon ...

Other debris from the wreckage, such as mattresses and a sink, were also found on the ocean floor. It is important to note that the boot is not human remains and the ship was empty when sunk.

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

Professor Klaus Dodds explains that the US is interested in Greenland for its rare earth minerals, hemispheric security, and Arctic shipping routes. The involvement of Asian and Middle Eastern ...