Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

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At present, industrial civilisation is at war with forests, animals, and the oceans. By polluting rivers and seas, it is steadily destroying the earth’s ...

'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic is like nothing else we've ever seen on Earth ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a new study, ...

Space mission is on it way there to find ET and experts agree the far off is the most likely spot in the Solar System ...

How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.