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Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...
Underwater avalanches, or "submarine landslides," might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but they’re a real danger ...
A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...
Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...
North Sea's giant sand mounds that perplexed scientists up until now have been found to be younger, denser sands that sank into older, lighter "ooze." ...
For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University ...
The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of ...
Following the removal of four dams from the Klamath River, which flows through California and Oregon, a group of young ...
The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...
The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is a staggering 2,722 ft tall. That’s 829.8 metres, or just over half a mile, making London’s top skyscraper, the Shard, seem like a glorified ...
Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...
On a recent morning, the R/V Echo, a 26-foot landing craft custom-built for the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University ...