NASA’s SWOT satellite reveals how small ocean features move heat and nutrients, reshaping climate and circulation models.

The IOOS system is made up of 11 regional associations that gathers maritime data that feed into the National Weather Service ...

Have you ever looked at a map and wondered why there are almost no direct flights or shipping routes between Australia and Chile, despite both countries being relatively close across the South Pacific ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

Ward and colleagues set out to map three mud depocenters ... the behavior and movement of ocean water, such as water depth and the speed and path of tidal currents. They reconstructed ancient ...

Ocean currents can carry phytoplankton hundreds of ... The team developed a Lagrangian growth-advection satellite-derived model that maps plankton succession and export onto surface oceanic ...

An estimated 31 million tons of smelly brown seaweed is floating int eh Atlantic this year, experts say, and Florida beaches could see more than ever.

In addition to the Carl Vinson, a second U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, was sent to the Middle East, where ...

USS Blue Ridge, a U.S. Navy command and control ship, has visited four countries in the South Pacific since mid- April.

A red flag at Emerald Isle warns beachgoers to expect dangerously strong currents and rough seas if they swim in the ocean.

On one of those 26 unguarded beaches, Treasure Shores Beach Park, the rough surf on May 9 claimed the life of an 18-year-old Sebastian River High School student, Calvin Deshawn Peart. He only had six ...