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A tsunami advisory has been issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after an earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, ...

Can New Jersey's offshore wind industry survive another year of high interest rates, lawsuits and supply chain bottlenecks?

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Fresh projections from WXCharts show an enormous blob of snowy conditions, marked in purple on the map, charging towards the country from the direction of the Atlantic. The late winter whiteout is ...

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, minerals to power electric-vehicle batteries. America has no immediate plans ...

The study challenges a time-honored assumption about the existence of totally separate North America and Europe separated by the Atlantic Ocean ... which means the whole ocean floor is periodic.

In a proud moment for our heritage, researchers have found evidence that Stone Age humans carved a map of their territory into the floor of a cave, located in modern France. Chipping away to ...

Languages: English. Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative ...

Some areas, mostly near coastlines, are already being designated accordingly, but this should be expanded to include areas of the ocean floor that are currently ... Vancouver Island and the mainland.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A group of people visiting the Turks and Caicos islands captured video of debris from the failed SpaceX ...

The 171-foot-tall (52 meters) spacecraft exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks and Caicos islands around 8.5 minutes after launch, creating a spectacular sky show witnessed by many ...