A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

The advisory was in place for Ocean County. "High tide has passed and water levels have decreased. Therefore, the Coastal ...

Ocean City Councilman Tony DeLuca survived a removal hearing Wednesday after a former City Council candidate challenged ...

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion.

Discover how the Coriolis effect shapes weather patterns across the globe, including ocean currents and a hurricane’s spin. The coriolis effect influences everything from trade winds to storms.

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

"Santa Cruz, Moss Landing and Monterey harbors and Pillar Point Harbor just north of Half Moon Bay host vessels that offer ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...