Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

Because salt water draws up heat from the deep ocean and makes it harder for sea ice to regrow - as well as bringing up ...

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Houthi rebels sink Liberian-flagged cargo ship in Red Sea, raising concerns about maritime safety and regional stability.

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

Last year, the average global temperature rose by 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, jeopardizing the goals of the Paris ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

Posted: June 20, 2025 | Last updated: June 20, 2025 Forget realism—what if Earth had way more water? At +2000m, entire continents vanish, new island chains form, and geography gets weird.

But that's what NASA and the European Space Agency, one of its partners on the James Webb Space Telescope, have called a ...