Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

The world’s oceans are changing in ways we can't ignore. New research suggests that Antarctic ice melt is slowing the ...

As global electricity demand grows, traditional energy sources are under strain. Oceans, which cover more than 70% of Earth's ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

Located off the coast of Ecuador, Paramount seamount is among the kinds of ocean floor features that certain ocean-observing ...

Earthquakes have been detected in the Pacific Ocean using cable-based ocean monitoring techniques employed by scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and New Zealand’s Measurement ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...