On a wave-battered rock in the northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

“We knew these rocks seemed somewhat out of place because ... where vast chunks of ice break away from glaciers, drift across the ocean, and eventually melt, scattering debris along distant ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

The victims fell or were swept into the ocean, according to the police, as swells pounded Sydney and other places along the ...