About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of 3 knots, ...

In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California ...

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

And it’s truly black.” A hidden artery running through East Asia, the Kuro­shio has shaped life along its path for millennia.

The converging waves swirl until they finally break into a 130-foot pillar of saltwater, in a process that scientists have ...

Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, ...

New images from a NASA satellite are giving scientists a view of tsunamis that they have never had before, revealing intricate structures in the open ocean that were previously invisible. Instead of a ...

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters off Greenland might hold the key. Scientists fear warming is driving a ...

When sonar first picked up a massive, stair‑like object on the floor of the Baltic Sea, the image looked less like geology and more like a movie prop. The structure’s circular outline, sharp edges and ...

Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...

Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk Scientists warn current collapse could trigger modern-day ice age for Northern Europe Researchers working to understand how, ...