Wondering why a small dusty cross anoints the foreheads of Christians once a year? They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and ...

New research suggests that Mars was once home to sprawling oceans and sun-soaked beaches, making it a surprisingly vacation-friendly destination—four billion years ago, that is. Using data from ...

Oceans support life on earth. And they are a pivotal resource for Europe’s clean growth agenda as the blue economy directly provides 4.5 million jobs across the continent. But polluting activities and ...

"The broken records in the ocean have become a broken record," said Chinese Academy of Sciences professor Lijing Cheng, who led 54 scientists from seven countries in studying how warmer oceans affect ...

Southeast Asians may have built advanced seafaring vessels tens of thousands of years before the Polynesians settled remote Pacific islands. © Alfred Pawlik The ...

Marine microplastics are microscopic pieces of plastic, less than 5 millimeters in length, found in oceans and seas. They come from broken-down plastic trash or products like face scrubs ...

We examine the role of immigration in the outcome. By David Leonhardt Germany yesterday became the latest country where voters rejected a left-leaning government largely because of their ...

The same is true when it comes to getting water out of oceans or lakes and into the atmosphere, where it subsequently falls as rain. Focusing on the first, climate models have predicted that ...

Essentially, warmer oceans risk becoming deserts, devoid of the nutrients needed to support seaweed growth. Seaweed is also a major carbon sink, although some researchers have warned that it’s ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory ...