Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

It’s one of the five oceans that cover nearly three-quarters of the Earth. The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic. Although the water looks calm and still from outer space ...

They produce nearly half the planet’s oxygen too. Lose the oceans and we lose everything. Here are five ways the oceans are ­suffering, with dire impacts for land ­dwellers, that need solutions.

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO) has taken five years to compile and update this map, which was first published in 2013. An international team of scientists ...