Commonwealth countries have adopted their first ocean declaration during their summit held for the first time in the Pacific ...

The Arctic is warming at three to four times the global average. However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean ...

On January 4, 1922, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Quest, finally reached South Georgia, an ice-capped island in the South Atlantic Ocean. But on January 5, 1922, he died of a heart attack off South ...

Stunning stat: Buizert's team found that, during previous AMOC collapses, sea ice reached as far south as New York City, ...

New population numbers for North Atlantic right whales are promising, but an effort to protect them from entanglements still ...

A lot of Americans know basic U.S. geography — you know, that the Atlantic Ocean is to the east and the Pacific is to the west, with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. But there are several ...

The best time to visit Atlantic City is either from March to May or from June to August. Although a nice breeze blows through the seaside town in the summer, the days are defined by humidity with ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

Even today, the Mediterranean Sea remains saltier than the rest of the Atlantic Ocean partly due to the same geographic and ...

China has traditionally been a land power and, despite its rhetoric of owning the South China Sea "since ancient times". It has only recently started projecting power in maritime areas beyond its ...

Here are five takeaways from Helene and Milton, and what these storms can tell residents of Long Island, a 118-mile-long land mass surrounded by water. Hurricanes form over tropical oceans, drawing ...