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 ...

Svalbard is the fastest warming place in the world, and even within the Arctic. Leaving as little trace as possible is a ...

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

The administration’s executive order lays out an ambitious process while stretching the power of existing law. Without ...

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 ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

Phytoplankton are crucial because they form the base of the aquatic food web and produce oxygen through photosynthesis. This plant life helps the oceans generate 50% of the world’s oxygen, absorb 25% ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...