Discover Point Nemo, Earth's most isolated location, where the nearest humans are often astronauts in space, not on land.

As humans make fires on the beach, far-flung plastic that has washed up there melts and fuses permanently with volcanic rocks ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

AS Jamaica continues its search for oil, Energy Minister Daryl Vaz is emphasising that the offshore work to be carried out by ...

Iceberg A23a could die any time now, as the latest photos from NASA show it covered with a blue mush that forms from ...

New satellite photos reveal that one of the world's largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue striations on its surface. The striking snaps hint that the "megaberg" will ...

UCRRA has set a goal to divert 90% of waste away from landfills and incineration by 2050, which aligns with the New York State Solid Waste Management Plan that calls for all municipal waste to divert ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...