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In the early days of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season the list of names are (happily) unused. Here are the 21 prepared names.
Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.
The canyons fishery described here is repeated along the western margins of all major ocean basins. The Gulf Stream is a western-boundary current of the Atlantic Ocean. In the Pacific, the Kuroshio ...
The new study found four of the world’s seven ocean basins have crossed the planetary boundary for ocean acidification. Polar regions have been most widely affected: Nearly 87 per cent of the Southern ...
In January of 2024, the share of the ocean surface experiencing a heat wave topped 40 percent. Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years.
The eastern Pacific Ocean has spawned a new tropical storm, Dalila, which will swipe southern Mexico with flooding downpours and gusty winds. Meanwhile, the Atlantic basin remains dormant for now ...
The fire burned 97% of Big Basin’s 18,000 acres. It wiped out campgrounds, the park store, the headquarters, ranger housing, bridges, the amphitheater and all the park’s utilities.
Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.
Ocean racing diehards have reason to cheer with Monday's announcement that Itajai is back on the map for both 2027 and 2031 when the Brazilian port will host the finish of the Southern Ocean leg ...
Take, for instance, the Pacific Ocean. The largest and deepest ocean basin on the planet, it is a vital wheel in many complex ecological systems, including the carbon cycle.
A Texas A&M-led study using a $1B satellite mission reveals how tiny ocean eddies and waves play a massive role in Earth's climate system. (CREDIT: NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) ...
A flurry of tropical cyclone activity over the past two weeks in the eastern Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Mexico has produced three named storms so far — with more storms expected ...