Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry. The technique, known as ocean alkalinity enhancement ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds ... from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in ...

Here, the stark contrast in temperature and salinity (saltiness) fuels a cascade powerful enough to move colossal volumes of water across the ocean floor. And yet, despite this massive scale, the ...

Credit: Christoph Hormann / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers have discovered a major shift happening in Africa. Forces deep inside the Earth make Africa split apart and create a pathway for a new ocean to ...

A sense of panic is growing in tiny southeast British Columbia communities around Kootenay Lake over fears they will be cut off from their neighbours and jobs by an escalating ferry service labour ...

The source was 30 km below the ocean floor, in the Sunda trench ... tsunamis have occurred in the past — 1960 Chile and 1964 Alaska, for example — the two 21st century events taught us ...

This is Whittier, Alaska, home to all 263 residents and the ... Winters are cold but moderated by the ocean, while summers are cool and ideal for outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking, and ...

Southeast Alaska’s next commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on Feb. 17. The Tanner crab population is on a slight decline, whereas golden king crab is on track for an ...

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor ...