For more than 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow bright green […] ...

Scientists thought La Niña was coming. It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, ...

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the ...

Atlantic hurricane season approaches, unusually cool sea surface temperatures, in the neighborhood of 2 °F below last year’s ...

Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every year. Tiny ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...

When you think of oceans you probably think of water, but the most massive reservoir of liquid in the solar system is made ...

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Los Angeles collected ash, air and water samples as fire blazed on the hills before them in January.

Ocean thermal energy conversion, OTEC, uses the difference in temperature between warm water on the ocean surface, and cold water down below, to generate power, according to Andrea Copping ...

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...