The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

Areas in Southern California slowly sliding toward the ocean. Heavy rainfall and erosion are most likely to blame for the slow-moving landslides that are pushing the Palos Verdes ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Scientists believe they’ve found a window into the dawn of time on Earth, and it’s hidden beneath the Pacific ... map ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

Aircraft carriers deployed by the United States and its NATO ally France made port calls in the Western Pacific Ocean this ...

Millions of people in Queensland and northern New South Wales under warnings to hunker down or evacuate, with flights, trains ...

It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ... Current will be 20% slower by 2050 as the world warms, with far-reaching consequences for life ...

Aurimas Mockus was in the final stages of his 7,500-mile voyage across the Pacific Ocean, which he started in an enclosed boat in October. After hitting stormy seas and 50mph winds generated by ...