A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space ... The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west.

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

If oceans didn’t exist and there was only land between continents, traveling around the world would look very different! We’d ...

Changes to our oceans and cryosphere - the world's frozen places - have global climate impacts for nature and people. We're already seeing more extreme weather, extensive coral reef bleaching and sea ...

The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant valleys and rugged, rocky plains that were once the ocean floor, connecting ...

Air correspondingly tends to rise in tropical locations and over continents in summer and oceans in winter (oceans have enough heat capacity to store much of the summer heat and release it in winter).

On top of that, Wegener learned that related species, too small to swim the oceans, were found on different continents, as were similar fossils. In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know ...

The rules vary from place to place, but the idea is to allow nature to flourish by limiting human activity as much as ...

With plans to expand ocean protection under the UN-endorsed biodiversity plan's "30x30" target (which aims to protect 30% of the world's land and oceans ... Our continents and islands are ...