Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Leka, a 500-million-year-old geological wonder in Trøndelag, offers a unique travel experience. Explore the island's dramatic ...

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...

The Kodiak History Museum and KANA are partnering on a new exhibit highlighting cooperation between scientists and Aleutian ...

A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean. Something strange is happening off the coast of Portugal, and scientists have now proposed a groundbreaking ...

The U.S. Geological Survey also worked on the research in areas that include the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Gulf of Mexico, which was renamed the Gulf of America by Trump.

Gulls forage on the Norton Sound beach at Nome on Oct. 2, 2020. Norton Sound is part of the Northern Bering Sea. Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama took action to prevent oil leasing in the ...

The Bering Sea communicates with the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas via northward advection of water, nutrients, and plankton through Bering Strait. However ... Coachman, L.K., and K. Aagaard. 1974.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates it contains between 4.3 and 11.8 ... there are no active oil and gas leases in federal waters in the Bering Sea or along the U.S. East Coast from Canada to ...

Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers.

A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea.. Today this frigid strait separates North America and Asia, but geologists suspect when the oceans were dramatically lower a land ...

Crossing The Bering Bridge Meant Finding A Path Through Swampy ... sea levels were so much lower that it was possible to walk on dry land across what is now the ... of the U.S. Geological Survey.