Stories tagged "ocean" - Page 14

The price of growing up as the child of a celebrity is that you probably get a ridiculous name.

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara. About half of these bubbles dissolve into the ocean, but the fate of this dissolved methane remains uncertain.

Survivors prayed at mass graves and mosques Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami.

The tsunamis that hit the shorelines of eleven countries on December 26, 2004, were triggered by a megathrust earthquake. Megathrust earthquakes are a potentially very destructive type caused when a tectonic plate in the Earth's crust slips under another

After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itse

Currents have created huge mud piles along the Arctic seafloor.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Olga neared two dozen on Thursday after flash floods killed at least 19 people in the Dominican Republic, where

The YouTube service on the mobile carrier's high-end Ocean handset is beefed up to allow GPS geotagging and easy uploads straight from the phone.

Scans of Earth's deep interior reveal a vast water reservoir beneath Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.

Just a few years ago, the lush coral reefs off Indonesia's Bali island were dying out, bleached by rising temperatures, blasted by dynamite fishing, and poisoned by cyanide. Now they are coming back, thanks to an unlikely remedy: electricity.