Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

When a remote mountainside collapsed into a narrow Greenland fjord, it did more than send water racing toward the coast. The ...

Far above the South Atlantic, Earth’s magnetic shield is thinning into a vast, lopsided bruise that now sprawls across an ...

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Henry Knox was only 25 years old when commissioned by Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...