About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

The sharp contrast between the two bodies of water is a rare phenomenon shaped by the Bahamas' peculiar geography.

The maps of the 1940s and 1950s were about a fresh (American) perspective to create a new world order. They instilled Trump’s ...

What is it that some of the most far-reaching groundwater on the Northeast does not lie beneath land, but beneath the ocean floor, as well? In the open ocean, out of the U.S. East Coast, scientists ...

In a world where borders are constantly shifting, the allure of overseas territories remains a force. Discover the hidden ...

In Trump’s speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, he blamed 'Iceland' for the US stock market dip, saying 'Iceland' instead of Greenland at least 4 times.

European leaders are trying all the classic moves--flattery, mostly--as they try to focus Trump on anything other than ...

Donald Trump has never been shy about his desire to claim Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark , as his own. But ...

In August 2026, Gradone and Selden will lead a 28-day expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (too), a state-of-the-art research ...

Early-career scientists at Rutgers lead an ambitious expedition to study ocean mixing and its role in sustaining life and ...

After years of speculation, oceanographers have finally confirmed the existence of a massive, hidden body of water sitting quietly along the equator beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Known as Atlantic ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...