SYDNEY, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Australia's southeast sweated in a heatwave that intensified on Sunday, elevating bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for more parts of Victoria state.

Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry. The technique, known as ocean alkalinity enhancement ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds ... from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in ...

Here, the stark contrast in temperature and salinity (saltiness) fuels a cascade powerful enough to move colossal volumes of water across the ocean floor. And yet, despite this massive scale, the ...

Credit: Christoph Hormann / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers have discovered a major shift happening in Africa. Forces deep inside the Earth make Africa split apart and create a pathway for a new ocean to ...