Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Amid China's recent intrusions in the West Philippine Sea, militaries from the Philippines, the United States, Japan, and Australia participated Wednesday in a joint exercise within the Southeast ...

Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap. The Afar region is most famous for being one of the hottest and most ...

We argue that policies aimed at effectively protecting cetaceans and their habitats must include the principle of dynamic ocean management coupled with other area-based management such as marine ...

The Azores Islands are a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, located about 1,500 km (930 mi ... Some of the Azores’ most iconic views and famed crater lakes are found on this island at ...

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...

How conversant are you with the Ocean? The ocean is the largest water body on the Earth, with many fascinating facts, yet it has not been explored fully. According to Kat Millage, a Marine Scientist ...

Special report: The Azores, the setting for the emergency 11th-hour summit between US president George Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar, are heavily laden with ...

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA — With its powerful camera, the French Navy surveillance plane scouring the Baltic Sea zoomed in on a cargo ship plowing the waters below—closer ...

SINGAPORE – The global sea-level rise due to climate change could be up to 90cm higher than earlier estimates by the end of the century, new research by NTU has found. The UN climate science ...

The surface of the ocean is warming four times faster than it was 40 years ago, scientists have warned. As the Earth absorbs more heat and reflects less back into space, this increase is only set to ...

after another underwater data cable was severed in the Baltic Sea. NATO vessels raced to the site of a damaged fiber-optic cable in Swedish waters on Sunday morning, where a trio of ships carrying ...