A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The Sentinel-6B satellite arrives in California for launch, ready to measure sea level with unprecedented climate accuracy.

A research team led by Prof. Wang Jianjun from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

NASA's Sentinel 6B lifts off from rain-soaked California to deliver the most precise data yet on rising seas, sparking debate ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

A billion-dollar international mission to extend humanity’s most precise ocean measurements is about to ride a column of fire ...

Plastic waste in the ocean is an issue we're struggling to manage, but a project out of the EU may have a robotic solution to ...