Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Korenaga and Guo estimated that it would have taken Earth 500 million years to neutralize ocean acidity enough to support life. Pockets of water with more neutral pH levels may have existed earlier, ...

It is so easy to forget that geological processes of Earth are ongoing ... The birth of a new ocean is slowly emerging in the African continent Under Ethiopia’s desert, a radical transformation is ...

The Somali plate is moving away from the Nubian plate, pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the ...

Large quantities of aerosols and gases released by the impact could ascend into the atmosphere, altering Earth’s climate with lingering effects, she said. If Bennu were to strike the ocean ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else ...

Researchers used a remotely operated vehicle from REV Ocean to examine the site closely. Professor Giuliana Panieri from UiT called the discovery “exceptional.” She noted that, while volcanoes ...

Enter: the European green crab, Carcinus maenas. They are a staple feature across parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, but have since spread from their native home to invade large swathes ...

However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges downward, taking some of the ... 2024 in the journal Solid Earth. The ocean plate was once the seafloor ...