Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...

Far below the frozen surface of Antarctica, scientists are uncovering a landscape that looks less like a featureless ice cap and more like a buried continent, complete with mountains, valleys, rivers ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

The global ocean heat content increased yet again in 2025, further raising the risk of catastrophic storms, sea-level rise, and coral bleaching. Reading time 3 minutes It would take roughly 365 ...

The map shows diverse geological features shaping Antarctic glaciers from below, which can improve climate models of ice melt ...

From maps that become art to a rack of Rand McNally road maps, straight out of gas stations of yore, “Mapping Outside the Lines” covers a lot of ground.

I tried 20 popular Gemini prompts to find the safest, cheapest way to fly my family to Florida later this year. Gemini gave me surprisingly specific guidance.

Long before GPS, engines, and modern instruments, humans crossed vast oceans using nothing but nature. This video explains how traditional Polynesian navigators read stars, waves, winds, and even ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where they live had never been made—until now.