The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

Learn more with Symmetry ’s updated interactive map. Since the map’s first release in 2013, national labs have closed some of their facilities and opened others. They have undergone name changes and ...

The Baltic Sea is better known than the North Sea for highlighting the vulnerability of the alliance's critical undersea infrastructure. It is occasionally dubbed a "NATO lake," the water bracketed by ...

In recent years, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events—such as heat waves, droughts, and heavy rains—have been increasingly linked to rising sea surface temperatures (SST).

Purpose-driven inventors: Bringing the sea floor to the surface Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has developed a new organisational framework to increase the US Navy's capability and capacity so that its fleet can be ready to ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Wozniak said the sea surface microlayer is a unique micro-environment. “It accumulates organic material of a certain kind and then it reaches the air-sea interface and accumulates there, and that ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...