An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

The announcement shows just how shrewdly the U.S. has gamed the international system. Since 1982, a United Nations agreement called the Law of the Sea has served as the cornerstone of the global ...

deposits on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Los Angeles (1). Their findings, which led to reporting from the Los Angeles Times, unveiled new insights into the potential contaminants present ...

In a proud moment for our heritage, researchers have found evidence that Stone Age humans carved a map of their territory into the floor of a cave, located in modern France. Chipping away to ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor ... areas in the Pacific Ocean, including ...

between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Indian Navy has deployed its guided-missile destroyer INS Mumbai for the exercise scheduled from January 16 to 24 and led by the French Carrier ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean will entirely disappear. Not from any environmental catastrophe ...

Some areas, mostly near coastlines, are already being designated accordingly, but this should be expanded to include areas of the ocean floor that are currently ignored, such as carbon-intense “hot ...