Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement ...

New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea level where light cannot reach. While this discovery could upend ...

The highest gust recorded was 184 km/h, with the highest 10-minute wind speed reaching 142 km/h at Mace Head Atmospheric ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid where the gravitational force is weaker than normal, causing the sea level to ...