In terms of sheer area, oceans are top of the list of the most common landforms. Yes, even oceans are landforms, given that they are composed of vast basins riddled with trenches and mountains.

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

While many shark species reside in the upper regions of the Earth’s oceans near the surface, there are some shark species ...

A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Earth’s oceans are said to be the greatest source of untapped renewable energy, offering a nearly continuous and highly predictable source of clean energy. This kind of energy will complement the now ...