A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

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

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

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 ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...