On a crisp morning in January, Ihoteu Beach on Jeju Island was covered with a long dark-red belt that stretched between the blue sea and white sand. Clumps of tangled Asian wireweed extended out more ...

After shrinking to less than half of their former glory, a community's cherished springtime flower fields are blooming again ...

Diver Hiroyuki Arakawa descends almost daily into the breathtakingly beautiful waters off the coast here, carrying an oxygen ...

In late 2023, researchers began documenting unfamiliar behavior in one of the Pacific’s most influential ocean currents. What initially appeared as an anomaly has since evolved into a complex and ...

The rise in sea levels and the abnormal behavior of ocean currents are raising alarm among scientists studying Japan’s coastlines. Researchers warn that global warming is disrupting marine dynamics ...

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion. Surface currents are driven by wind blowing across the sea surface, and ...

The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm water north and circulating much-needed nutrients to aquatic life. However, scientists have ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

(CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets. Amid ...

Japan is often viewed through a land-based lens. Yet as an archipelago in the northwestern Pacific, its history has long been shaped by the sea. In The Kuroshio Frontier: Empire and Environment in the ...