“We are seeing lots of rays and squid around us at night, hunting the flying fish. In the middle of the subtropical ocean ...

Wirewalker deploy: this is a collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. Wirewalker is a package of ...

The letter did not say. Along with carbon dioxide, these volcanoes and the 40,000-miles of mid-ocean mountain ridges pump enormous amounts of heat into the ocean; we don’t have a good handle on ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

The shakes have left the 'Big One' on many Greater Victorian minds – a megaquake on the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates. The last megaquake hit Vancouver Island in January ...

Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Bigelow Laboratory scientists have advanced an exciting method for linking the activity of individual microbes to their ...

Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. In February, the city began vegetating the sand dunes as part of its ...