Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, ...

As the dense water flows northward along the seafloor ... satellites such as CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3A can measure changes in sea surface height to within a few centimetres.

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

But how did the Indus River disappear from Gujarat and start flowing in Karachi? Historical facts show that a massive ...

The Indus Water Treaty, signed in 1960, was working despite two wars between India and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, not to ...

It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in South Louisiana have a complicated relationship with the long-standing ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...