Did you know the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's oceans? Covering about 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles), it's roughly 1.5 times the size of the ...

Craig McLean began his science lecture with a light-hearted discussion of that popcorn snack Crackerjacks. But he quickly ...

In June 2024 The Economist remembered Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, the mission’s lunar module pilot. Anders also took ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

In April 2024, as the oceans started simmering, 77 percent of the world’s coral reefs became imperiled in the most extensive bleaching event on record, threatening the livelihoods of a billion ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

“Oceans Are the Real Continents” bears a significant resemblance to Roberto Minervini’s more galvanizing “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?” — another case of an Italian ...

“Oceans Are the Real Continents” — whose very title nudges audiences to reimagine how it is we understand the geography of the world around us — is guided by a similar type of convictio ...