Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet is cracking open at the seams, literally falling apart at speeds indicative of the brutal and accelerating impact of global climate change. In just five years, 930 million cubic ...

The National Hurricane Center's website and maps now reflect the official name (at least in the U.S.) of the Gulf of America.

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As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP says it must ensure that place names and geography ...

What’s in a name?” On the surface, those wouldn’t seem like fighting words … unless being aggressively bandied about by a White Housed world leader inclined to readily stir the international pot. As ...

this part of the Atlantic Ocean washes against other countries, too. So, can the president really rename it? Sure! At least as far as the US is concerned, anyway. The relevant federal body is the ...