Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...

Cortes Bank, a shallow seamount 100 miles into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, is a mystical place; a legendary, yet fabled spot in the world of big-wave surfing. But Cortes Bank is also ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Examining coastal sea rise, tracking underwater ocean waves and adding to long-term data about ...

The sea is getting angry, my friends. Waves and surf along the California coast are getting bigger and taller because of global warming, a new study released this week suggests. In fact, winter wave ...

Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows ...

When an ocean wave falls, the ground shakes. Now, those wobbles are getting bigger. Stormier seas and larger ocean swell in recent decades are pounding Earth’s seafloor with more force, sending larger ...

The “blob” of hotter ocean water that killed sea lions and other marine life in 2014 and 2015 may become permanent. By Henry Fountain Six years ago, a huge part of the Pacific Ocean near North America ...