Tag: oceans

Manx shearwaters breed on islands in the North Atlantic where they make nests in underground burrows. Jamie Darby On a ...

Glowing green waters surrounded a boat in the Arabian Sea. Illustration by Mercedes Minck The sky was moonless and overcast, ...

A skeleton of the giant Triassic ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis hangs in the Nevada State Museum. Kenneth Carpenter via Wikimedia Commons ...

The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been relatively stable over billions ...

The Russia-controlled Northern Sea Route is one of the only ways ships can sail through the Arctic. Melting sea ice ...

Blue holes, like the Great Blue Hole in Belize, are vast caverns that descend into the seafloor. Sediment accumulates at ...

Chilean devil rays swim in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores.  Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images There’s ...

The House of Slaves on Senegal’s Island of Gorée is one of 284 significant African coastal sites included in a ...

Just how big was the January eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano? Four months of intensive science has only bumped up ...

IN DECEMBER 2009, a submarine plunged 2,000 meters into the Gulf of California and emerged clutching a whole new branch ...