The Blake Plateau, an astonishing deep-sea mountain range, features striking pillars of marine life alongside humanity’s propensity for industrial-level oceanic mining. This area in the Atlantic Ocean ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

A recent slowdown in the upward march of global temperatures is likely to be the result of the slow warming of the deep oceans, British scientists said on Monday. Oceans are some of the Earth's ...

During a developing El Niño event occurred on the tropical eastern Pacific, the southwestern Tibetan Plateau located at the Inner Eurasia usually suffered a serious drought, despite a vast ...

These include the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean, the Southwest Indian Ridge between Africa and Antarctica, and a pair of massive underwater mountain ranges—the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean is the world's longest continuously erupting supervolcano dating back into the Cretaceous ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at opening U.S. waters to deep-sea mining. Many conservatives and industry groups contend the order is meant to break America's ...

The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

warm Gulf Stream current heading northward from Florida over these deep coral reef mounds on the seafloor creates complex and dynamic ocean flows that boost the productivity of the Blake Plateau ...

The Tibetan Plateau, an area in central Asia half the ... the elevated region boosted the strength of humid winds from the ocean. This monsoonal air flow dumped its rainfall in the Himalayan ...

Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters ...