A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

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Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in the process. Now a new study suggests that ...

The Ring of Fire is one of the most iconic geological features in the world. Stretching some 40,000 km along the Pacific Ocean, it is home to 75 per cent of the Earth’s volcanoes and 90 per cent ...

The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some ...

News Published: 20 April 1929 Geological History of the Atlantic Ocean 1 Nature 123, 622 (1929) Cite this article ...

Sperm Whale. Image via Pixabay. Despite oceans covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, we have mapped less than 25% of the ocean floor at high resolution. Traditional ocean floor mapping methods face ...

A geological phenomenon is occurring in the heart of East Africa that could forever alter the Earth’s map. A new ocean is in the process of forming, a consequence of tectonic movements that are ...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has funded a mathematician to advance acoustic technologies to map the uncharted expanses of the planet’s ocean floor. Part of the ONR’s Basic and Applied Scientific ...

For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western ...