Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

At the 3rd BB Lal Memorial Lecture at IIC last week, speakers connected the late archaeologist's ideas to a govt initiative ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This ...

Ahead of his Campbell Hall appearance on Wednesday, December 3, poet and novelist Ocean Vuong speaks with Air Time host Charles Donelan about his new novel The Emperor of Gladness and the fictions ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

The Cooperative National Geologic Map offers a complete and detailed look at the bedrock and fault systems of the continental United States. The first geological map of the United States was published ...

This place is as remote as you can get. Indeed, the isolated location is the reason behind its unique flora and fauna, much of it found nowhere else on Earth.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — This fall, the popular “Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series” returns to Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, ...