Dr Chuan Huang, the study's lead author, explained: “Earth’s continents have formed supercontinents multiple times in its history, and the next one is likely to emerge as the Pacific Ocean closes.

Seismic imaging has revealed two colossal regions deep within Earth’s mantle that could reshape our understanding of the ...

An astonishing 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, with oceans holding about 96.5 percent of the planet's supply. The world's major seas number five, and include the Pacific ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

If you type 9°59'36"S 161°59'10"E into Google Earth, you'll see a dark blue patch of water in the Pacific Ocean. It's about ... of Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific, said ...