Tanks containing seawater, sand, rocks, and animals can have their water temperature and acidity controlled to reflect current conditions (right) and those that may result from climate change.

Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. The Boxing Day quake was one of the largest ever recorded.

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The Ocean Cleanup has built a huge trash-collecting system, a U-shaped barrier with a net-like skirt that hangs below the surface of the water. It moves with the current and collects faster-moving ...

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The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's ocean basins, according to the National Ocean Service. It contains more than half of the free water on Earth, spanning around 63 million square miles.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this week. The National ...

The Indian Ocean geoid low can be see off the southern tip of India. Credit: “How the Indian Ocean Geoid Low Was Formed,” by Debanjan Pal et al., in Geophysical Research Letters.