The global ocean economy is at risk of major disruption without increased protection, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The global ocean economy had ...

“I really thought we were going to see a dead body in the water.” Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified ...

It predicts that electrons should show diffraction effects with crystals ... energy is regarded as replaced by a train of waves the wave-length X of which is given by X=(Planck's constant A ...

But it’s the motion of the ocean that matters. The hinged wave boards, each with its own motor synced up to software, can precisely recreate eight ocean conditions (from flat calm to typhoonlike ...

Like ocean waves, these ripples are transverse waves because the surface of the water moves up and down, at 90° to the direction that the wave is travelling. Water waves can reflect or ‘bounce ...

A marine heat wave is a period of unusually high ocean temperatures and is defined by its duration and intensity. One of the most common ways that scientists measure the ocean’s temperature is through ...

An autonomous underwater vehicle can propel itself efficiently by using the energy in nearby water currents. Underwater and ...

Initiatives such as building offshore wind farms for electricity, using ocean wave power for energy, or making sustainable aquaculture fish feed from algae are multiplying. A more sustainable use ...