An underwater volcano in the Pacific, Axial Seamount, reveals a process that could challenge current theories about the Earth ...

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

A vast pulse of warm water is moving east beneath the tropical Pacific. You can’t see much of it from space, because most of the action is below the ocean surface, and satellites can only map the ...

Ocean temperatures have been steadily rising. As someone who spends a lot of time in the ocean, I can attest that it has been ...

South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth’s strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep it has puzzled ...

A UW-led study found that waters along the Pacific Northwest are experiencing high rates of acidification that outpace the ...

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 record-warm water is chugging along. This train, called a Kelvin wave, is ...

The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean.

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.

Researchers at National Taiwan University and partner institutions have uncovered new evidence that Antarctic Intermediate ...