Marine heat waves are a consequence of climate change and are increasingly altering marine and coastal regions worldwide. An ...

The swell moving up the coast is a planetary-scale process, meaning it's thousands of miles wide, known as a Kelvin wave, and ...

A hidden 1,000-mile Kelvin wave is quietly racing toward Northern California, where an extra foot of water could turn king ...

Powerful waves take control of a boat in a dramatic moment that shows just how unpredictable the ocean can be.

Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm "messengers," carrying a storm's power across entire oceans. Observations from the ...

Driven as a direct consequence of the strengthening Super El Niño, this phenomenon—known scientifically as a Kelvin wave or coastally trapped planetary wave—is moving northward from Equatorial Central ...

Marine heat waves—periods of abnormally warm ocean temperatures—may have negative health effects on children who live in ...

Ocean waves along the California coastline have long symbolized the best the state has to offer: surf-ready swells at Malibu and Rincon; the misty beauty of breakers crashing along the North Coast; ...

Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger numerous die-offs of marine species, killing millions of corals, fish, mammals, birds and ...

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Did you know that at least since the 17 th century, humans have studied how to turn ocean waves into energy? But like with many other renewable energies, it was only after the oil price crisis of 1973 ...