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Magnetic signals from Earth's tides revealed in unprecedented detailScientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they might have to wait until 2030 to get another shot at it.
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Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detailNew images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.
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Denmark Strait cataract: The world's largest waterfall, hidden underwater and unlike any other on landThe Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents.
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Satellites reveal stunningly detailed maps of Earth's seafloorsA newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.
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'A challenge and an opportunity for evolution': The extreme, hidden life thriving in Earth's most acidic and alkaline lakes"The most acidic natural inland waters are the lakes that lie in the craters of volcanoes, like Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These lakes are so rich in sulfuric acid that they may have a pH as low as 0.1. To put this in context, fresh battery acid has a pH of about 0.7. "
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Crimea's 'putrid sea' creates beautiful rainbow of color but smells like rotten eggsEarth from space A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons — each filled with a different kind of algae.
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Key Atlantic current is weakening much faster than scientists had predictedA current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker by 2040, a new study has revealed.
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Indian Ocean gravity hole: The dent in Earth's gravitational field created by the death of an ancient oceanThe Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, lower-than-average sea levels and a puzzle scientists have only just begun to solve.
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'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levelsNASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay.
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