The lessons learned from these extreme environments shape our understanding of Earth, our solar system and our place in the ...

Scientists aren't sure how the circular indentations some 450 feet below the surface formed, but they hope to investigate ...

Lake Bonney is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. English Sign in ...

From a lake that claimed hundreds of lives to another that mummifies creatures that fall in, these lakes will send a shiver ...

Unless you’re someone with a deep (pun intended ... Hold 21% of the world's supply of surface fresh water. Where is the Lake Erie alligator?: Expert weighs in on gator's survival chances ...

Lakes on Nivlisen have the highest overall mean depth at 1.94 ± 0.30 m, whereas the deepest water body is found on Roi Baudouin East with a lake depth of 3.46 ± 0.29 m, followed by a 3.41 ± 0.30 m ...

The search for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan yielded something scientists weren’t quite expecting: massive ...

As for its depth, Lake Huron is 750 feet deep — say, about 750 Subway sandwiches below sea level. It holds 850 cubic miles of water. Lake Huron is the fifth-largest freshwater lake in the world.

“which have formed in the deep bottom sediment due either to water upwelling from below or trapped hydrocarbon offgassing.” The newfound mysteries in Lake Michigan have area researchers excited.

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau. Understanding such ...

Thwaites Glacier could lead to 10 feet of sea level rise Rapid ice loss is set to speed up this century Study reveals unexpected melting mechanisms in Thwaites ...