Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Canada uranium deal, today's Knowledge Nugget revisits the basics — what uranium is, its key isotopes, how the enrichment process works, and why it is central to nuclear energy. Also, go 'Beyond the ...

STRAITS OF FLORIDA — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — It is just one scenario among many, but by far the most cataclysmic. Sometime over the next 100 years, human-driven warming could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat ...

The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published February 3 in Nature ...

Choppy, cold afternoon seas met our group of 30 or so that boarded a boat to watch marine mammals just before the new year. Thick spray soaked my clothes and my glasses needed windshield wipers – OK, ...

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion. Surface currents are driven by wind blowing across the sea surface, and ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists’ attention. Working together, they linked the ...

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and in 2026, there are big concerns about climate change driving more extreme weather and health impacts for those of us who live here. This week, an arctic ...

Climate change is warming Europe, but scientists are also studying whether a weakened Atlantic current could make Britain colder, with Laurie Laybourne, director of the Strategic Climate Risks ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - A former student was arrested Thursday after threatening a current Ocean Springs High student with a weapon on campus, the school district says. According to the Jackson ...