Sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), have been reported throughout history. The post Study: Most Sightings of UAPs Occur in...
https://www.sci.news/space/american-uap-sightings-12731.html
The new-submerged Northwest Shelf of Sahul was a vast area of land in the Late Pleistocene epoch that connected the Australian regions of the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land during times of low...
Geoscientists have discovered a landscape that appears to have been formed by rivers at least 14 million years ago and possibly even before the initial growth of the East Antarctic ice around 34 ...
After nine years of gathering, cleaning, processing and interpolating data, an international team of researchers this week released the second version of the International Bathymetric Chart of th...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/southern-ocean-map-10888.html
A multinational team of researchers has catalogued data on 773 subglacial lakes — repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and modulate ice flow — including 675 s...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/subglacial-lakes-inventory-10475.html
A duo of MIT researchers has created the most detailed atlas of the world’s largest oxygen deficient zones, biogeochemical regions of the global ocean that occur naturally, as a consequence of ...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/atlas-pacific-oceans-oxygen-deficient-zones-10412.html
A team of scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has discovered paleolake basin situated beneath the ice sheet in northwest Greenland; geomorphological analysis a...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/giant-ancient-lake-bed-greenland-ice-sheet-09042.html
A team of scientists from Europe, the United States, Canada, South Korea, Greenland and China has produced the most detailed depth map of the Arctic Ocean to date. The new map, named the Internat...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/international-bathymetric-chart-arctic-ocean-08687.html
A team of scientists from GNS Science, New Zealand’s leading provider of Earth, geoscience and isotope research and consultancy services, has created new bathymetric and tectonic maps of Zealan...
BedMachine Antarctica is a new bed topography map based on ice thickness data from different research institutes dating back to 1967, encompassing nearly a million line-miles of radar soundings. ...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/bedmachine-antarctica-map-07912.html
A team of cartographers and researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University has produced a high-resolution terrain map of Antarctica (pdf and tif files). The new map co...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/high-resolution-map-antarctica-06404.html
Earlier this year, Zealandia was confirmed as Earth’s seventh continent, but little is known about it because it’s 94% submerged under water. After a two-month voyage to study the sunken land...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/zealandia-expedition-05269.html
Zealandia — a 4.9 million km2 region of the southwest Pacific Ocean — was once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana and today it is 94% submerged, according to a research team led by N...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/zealandia-continent-04618.html
In November 2014, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor discovered a seamount, or underwater mountain, 28,500 feet (8,700 m) on the ocean floor off of Guam near the Mariana Trench. T...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/science-falkor-seamount-guam-mariana-trench-03390.html
According to a duo of Australian scientists, Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia’s coastline dating back to 11,000 – 5,300 BC. Prof. Patrick Nunn of the University of the S...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/linguistics/science-aboriginal-stories-australia-03272.html
A team of researchers aboard an ocean-going research vessel called RV Investigator has discovered a cluster of 50-million-year-old volcanoes off the coast of Sydney, Australia. The cluster of fou...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geography/science-underwater-volcanoes-australia-03017.html
Innovative techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionize the way that scientists study the Earth’s oceans. This new approach offers remote monitoring of...
An international group of scientists using data from ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has created the most accurate map of ocean currents to date. The GOCE...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geophysics/science-new-map-ocean-currents-02304.html
Researchers from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as the SeaBED have created the first high-resolution, three-dimensional maps of A...
Using data from NASA’s and European Space Agency’s satellites that measure variations in gravitational field, a multinational team of researchers led by Dr David Sandwell of Scripps Instituti...