“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 instruments that uses wave ...

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 ...

With County's 45-mile Atlantic shoreline, there are lots of beautiful beaches. Here is a guide to local points of interest at ...

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 ...

NZTA also plans to replace lights at the SH1 intersections with Rakanui Road (near Peketa), the Ocean Ridge Boulevard south ...

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 ...

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.

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

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

Recent studies suggest that the mountains may harbour vast reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen gas, potentially ...