The ocean basins are so vast and deep that they hold about 97 percent of the Earth's water. Sea water that's trapped in ...

On July 29, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast but evacuation ...

The twilight zone of the ocean is a mysterious place. At 200-1000 meters below the surface, it's a tough place to study. That's why, during World War II, people reading sonograms from this zone were ...

Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometers of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies ...

Where others might have pulled their small child away from the tumbling whitewater, her mother instead recognized her ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are ...

Researchers predict that the rate of human impacts on the oceans is accelerating, and expected to double by 2050 ...