We tend to think of gravity as being about as constant as it gets. It is the invisible anchor that keeps our feet on the ...

Hawaiʻi’s first rip current clinic, led by an internationally recognized ocean safety educator, was held at Hanalei Bay. On Wednesday morning, Feb. 18, at the Hanalei Beach Pavilion, a free rip ...

Los Angeles County officials issued an ocean water advisory Monday through at least Saturday morning, warning beachgoers to ...

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

By 2050, offshore wind power capacity in the North Sea is set to increase more than tenfold. Researchers at the Helmholtz ...

Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater ...

But scientists say a warming world is throwing off this balance. As Arctic ice melts, freshwater enters the North Atlantic — making the ocean water less dense, so it is less likely to sink. As a ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

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 ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

At least two deaths in the mainland United States are expected to be attributed to rough surf conditions as Hurricane Erin moved away from the coast, and police continue searching for a person missing ...