Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the ...

"While the other oceans are defined by the continents that fence them in, the Southern Ocean is defined by a current ... The name change to Gulf of America on Google Maps is visible only in ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean—between Antarctica and other continents—will eventually ... As the atmosphere warms, oceans have been absorbing heat, which they eventually ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

In Southern ... layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above this layer. But how these sublayers manage to exist in this ideal state, with the continents on top, is ...

In a room full of maps, the first world map presented (from the early 1490s) is way off the mark (with an imaginary land bridge from southern ... to connect the continents and oceans are the ...