An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of worrying information.

A scientific expedition to theGreat Blue Hole, a massive marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize, has uncovered compelling evidence that tropical cyclones in the region are becoming more frequent and ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of predatory dinosaur in Kyrgyzstan. This dinosaur, named Alpkarakush ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese researchers have made a compelling case that Earth's oceans were once green, in ...

Geological evidence for past lake basins in the Sahara are commonly found near interdune depressions and other low-lying regions, where ancient lake bed sediment outcrops and shoreline deposits ...

In addition to the decrease in water availability, the melting of glaciers contributes to the formation and expansion of glacial ... riverbank erosion, sediment deposition on fertile land, and ...