A new study has used 30 years of data to find areas with the highest potential for generating energy from ocean currents ...

One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely ...

The risk of flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along California’s coastline, state officials ...

In a worst-case tsunami, parts of Alameda, Oakland and Berkeley could be flooded up to an 18-foot elevation, California officials said in new study.

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...

Aircraft carriers deployed by the United States and its NATO ally France made port calls in the Western Pacific Ocean this week ... Yokosuka, Japan The George Washington remained pierside at ...

The Kuroshio Current that runs on the west side of the Pacific Ocean and along the east side of Japan has recently been ... in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water ...

Flights to Japan from the US often take routes over Alaska due to the Earth's spherical shape, optimized flight paths, and ...

This information helped ships map ... in the Pacific Ocean and have huge impacts on global weather patterns. Agencies in other countries also monitor these patterns, including Peru and Japan ...

The United States and its NATO ally France continued to deploy their aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific Ocean this week ... most southerly of the four Japan's main islands, from Wednesday ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...