Dec. 2 (UPI) --Uruguay's government has approved seismic studies in deep waters of the South Atlantic to determine whether the country has offshore oil reserves -- a decision moving forward with ...

New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral reef that resulted in high rates of coral mortality. Unlike many bleaching events, this was driven by the presence of ...

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 ...