On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku mega-earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami. At ...

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for humanity's ...

Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) has received approval by the local authorities to drill two carbon capture and storage ...

New Research Shows How Ash from Kos Island Traveled Over 75 Miles Underwater to Santorini, Reshaping Greece’s Volcanic ...

Turkmenistan's Darvaza Gas Crater, famously known as the \"Door to Hell,\" has been burning for 54 years. This fiery ...

Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench — seven kilometres below sea level — lie hidden clues about some of the most powerful earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth. From September to ...

Drilling is under way of the Teal West 21/24d well using the jack-up drilling rig Shelf Drilling Fortress, according to ...

Scientists have drilled down into the Antarctic ice sheet, largely in an attempt to understand the Earth's past climate. The ...

The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of ...

A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all ...