A giant dam that blocks off the entire Bering Straight could prevent the collapse of one of the ocean's critical arteries, ...

An artistic visualization of ocean currents from NASA has people mesmerized learning about our planet's underwater highways.

In the crushing darkness of the hadal zone—deep ocean trenches plunging 6,000 m to nearly 11,000 m—scientists have uncovered ...

The Global Ocean Observing System informs weather forecasts and climate projections. But funding pressures could create data ...

In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from ...

Have you heard about this "Super El Niño" weather pattern that setting up? Here's what that could mean for New Hampshire's ...

The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean. That’s where a freight train of ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

Forecasters already rely on satellites, buoys and hurricane hunter aircraft to monitor ocean conditions. Sharks, however, may ...

A broad swath of the Pacific Ocean is simmering from an exceptional marine heat wave that scientists warn could just be settling in. Marine animals are already feeling its effects.

Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and a carnivorous “death ...

Scientists have long warned that melting ice in Antarctica could raise global sea levels and threaten coastal cities around ...