It has become the fifth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, with wind speeds reaching 180mph as it sweeps across the ...

The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy ...

The last time Tampa Bay was hit by a major hurricane was 1921, when just a few hundred people lived in sparsely developed ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Fla., for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up.

Researchers say that two rivers merged some 89,000 years ago and gave the mightiest peak in the Himalayas a huge growth spurt ...

Because of the way storm surge can quickly inundate coastal locations and penetrate well inland, it’s typically one of the ...

NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps ... at sea level. In contrast, the newer method takes elevation on Earth into consideration. The moon’s topography ...

The US Coast Guard released a map of the expansive debris field generated ... the debris while the larger end caps fell to the ocean floor. While deep sea currents may have influenced the spread ...

As Milton barrels toward the Gulf Coast of Florida, experts are worried that a century of luck could come to a sudden end.

University of Maryland scientists uncovered evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank deep into Earth during the age of ...