New Antarctic ice core data bolster model predictions of ocean heat content during glacials and interglacials.

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

A thawing Arctic has become the latest frontier of geopolitical competition; here’s what China, Russia, and the United States ...

Scientists have discovered the exact point where gravity is weakest on Earth, leaving people feeling "lighter". After ...

The economic promise of the Arctic has also heightened military and security sensitivities, Stefan Wolff writes in a ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid ...

How many oceans are there? Four, of course. Wrong. While we were busy with the COVID-19 pandemic, NOAA, U.S. Board on ...

By Veronika Samborska for Our World in Data The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record-low winter maximum on March 22, 2025, with just 5.53 million square miles of coverage—well ...

Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow ...