Big storms can generate ocean swells that travel thousands of kilometres and cause damage to distant coasts. Predicting their paths and local impacts remains a challenge.

Living on a Caribbean island means he’s never far from the might of the ocean – so could it power his house? Presenter Greg Foot heads to one of the world’s leading wave energy test ...

These ripples are waves travelling through the water. 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 ...