The Afar region in northeastern Africa could split over millions of years, forming a new ocean. Scientists monitor rifts, ...

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys ...

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

Unusually intense storms, warmer oceans and fragile infrastructure have combined to create a catastrophic season.

It was the first time since 2015 that no hurricanes directly impacted the U.S.

November 2025 / Kiel. So far, the ocean has helped to buffer global warming by absorbing more than 90 per cent of the excess heat trapped in the Earth system by the anthropogenic greenhouse effect. A ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are mapping clusters of dense, towering formations that do not fit neatly into ...

Cores of lava breccia, cemented with white calcium carbonate minerals, recovered from IODP Site U1557. Credit: IODP JRSO ...

The Indian Ocean is the only ocean named after a country, India. Learn how the Indian Ocean was given its title and also get into science-backed facts about its unique warm waters, monsoon currents, ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for millennia in piles of ...