Imagine living on the ocean floor. Underwater living is becoming real as new technology makes long-term life beneath the sea ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most likely that if there is life beyond our planet and within our solar system, it ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggests 27 ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...