The Arctic Ocean is warming four times faster than the rest of the world's oceans, a trend that could potentially spill over to the rest of the world in the form of altered weather patterns and other ...

For the first time on record, storms have reached top-tier Category 5 strength in every tropical ocean basin in the same year. A combination of human-caused climate change and El Niño have heated ...

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic to ...

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...

Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment this summer in ocean waters south of Martha’s Vineyard. The experiment to tinker with the pH of a patch of ocean ...

All of Earth's deepest ocean trenches are located in the Pacific Ocean, a result of intense tectonic plate subduction. These ...

The Afar region in northeastern Africa represents one of the few locations on Earth where a new ocean may be forming over the next several million years. Situated at a unique triple junction where the ...

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, brought violent winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica after making landfall Tuesday and continues to threaten parts of the Caribbean as it tracks through.