Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from ...

A team of researchers has used computer models to simulate tropical cyclones at high resolutions and investigate their effect ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

For decades, Mumbai’s residents have had limited access to the city’s waterfront. The Union government has now approved an Rs ...

At least a handful of Thanksgiving shoppers were disheartened when they went to prepare the holiday staple cranberry sauce last week and found their cans of Ocean Spray did not contain the sauce but ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

For years, Saturn’s largest moon Titan has worn the label “ocean world.” Beneath its orange smog and methane rain, many ...

As the sea surface cools down due to a hurricane, the ocean subsequently absorbs more carbon dioxide, as simulations at the ...