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For whatever reason, many weather conspiracy theories have crawled out of the fringes and into mainstream discussions. Over ...
Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.
Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...
The researchers believe topographic features on the seafloor, like submarine canyons and gullies, are one of the many factors ...
Earth's largest waterfall, Denmark Strait cataract, is located in Arctic waters between Iceland and Greenland and is roughly ...
Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the groundwork for a new ocean.
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of Rhode Island.
The birth of a new ocean and the reshaping of a continent are just parts of Earth's ever-evolving story—a story that we, as inhabitants of this planet, are fortunate enough to observe and study.
Most images of the Earth show the Northern Hemisphere of the planet, as this half of the globe is home to 68% of all land.
David Attenborough’s new film shines a light on threats to the ocean, as well as its remarkable ability to recover.
Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic Mercator Projection look outright dull.