The waves can knock people down and sweep them into the cold Pacific Ocean waters with little advance ... find out if sneaker waves and/or rip currents are a threat. The NWS warns to avoid steep ...

The NWS warns that sneaker waves can reach much further up beaches and over rocks and jetties than expected. These waves can ...

In Chile, vineyards are closer to the Pacific Ocean and at a lower altitude than those in Argentina. The cold Humboldt ...

As well as the cold tongue, other pockets of cool oceanic water sporadically present themselves, such as an area of the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco that has recently been the coldest it’s ...

A mysterious patch in the Pacific Ocean is defying all climate models - it is inexplicably cooling while the rest of the world is warming. Stretching off the west coast of Ecuador, thi ...

The researchers suggest there could've been a "grand reorganization" of ocean currents, depositing more than expected amounts of beryllium-10 in the Pacific. Perhaps most intriguingly, the anomaly ...

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.

It keeps warmer water away from the Antarctic Ice Sheet and connects the Atlantic, Pacific ... cold water to the Southern Ocean. To explore how this influx will affect the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...