Our planet is a beautiful, blue planet that is mostly covered in water. Scientists usually identify five major oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The Pacific Ocean is the ...

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths. The efficiency of this process can be estimated using the so-called water ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

Navigators employ distinct strategies based on yacht capabilities Vila focuses on currents and trade wind evolution Oxley prioritises avoiding rough water for Raven's speed ARRECIFE, Lanzarote, Jan 10 ...

The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be possible from Australia, ...

Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

By Libby George LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A survey of small island developing nations such as Mauritius and the Maldives ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.