New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

Beneath the Indian Ocean lies a 106-meter gravity hole, caused by ancient mantle plumes and vanished oceans. Scientists trace ...

Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, deepening of Earth’s ocean basins may have caused a sea level change of similar magnitude, but in the opposite direction. (Image credit: NASA) ...

However, sea level change also occurs over millions of years as geological processes gradually reshape Earth's ocean basins and change their total storage volume. Colleen Dalton and colleagues ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this ...

including some that flow toward the western sides of the ocean basins. The currents hug the eastern coasts of continents as they head north or south from the equator: These are the western ...

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent for February at 8% below average, the third consecutive month in which the sea ice extent set a record for the corresponding month ...