Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft ...

Even in some of the most isolated corners of the Pacific, plastic pollution has quietly worked its way into the food web. A large analysis of fish caught around Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu found ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

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 ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...

From the coral-covered coastlines of Tonga to the remote sandy atolls of Tuvalu, microscopic synthetic fibers are ...

The United States has expanded its underwater territorial rights by more than one million square kilometers, securing exclusive control over the ocean seabed and subsoil in parts of the Atlantic, ...

How could a continent with a surface area of almost 5 million square kilometers, larger than India or almost two-thirds the size of Australia, remain absent from maps and ignored by the scientific ...