Fueled by an intense El Niño season, this little-known oceanographic phenomenon is threatening the Pacific seaboard ...

An El Nino-linked ocean phenomenon could temporarily raise sea levels along the California coast by up to a foot, increasing the risk of flooding, erosion and landslides this fall and winter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an El Niño year, another climate term is likely to make headlines: the Kelvin wave. These waves are not like the breaking waves ...

Multiple Kelvin waves can develop during one El Niño, sending pulses of warm water eastward and helping fuel ocean warming.

When ocean waves reach shallow water, their complex interactions can produce lower-frequency infragravity waves. These waves ...