Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists from the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Oregon State ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

“Whether we want it or not, water waves are more often three-dimensional than two-dimensional in the real world,” Frederic ...

A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's water cycle. A massive ...

The boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, where the air and sea interact, is known as the sea surface microlayer.

In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.

Created over millions of years, manganese nodules along the abyssal plain contain many of the metals needed to make batteries ...

Using a unique, circular wave pool, engineers learned that waves can be four time steeper than previously calculated.

Scientists have discovered that ocean waves may become far more extreme and complex than previously imagined. The new study, ...

To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...