These highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are sure to remind you of everything you love about the shore ...

For the past decade, the South Pacific island nation’s coral reefs have faced one punishing blow after another. Now something ...

On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has hit off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East. It sent tsunami waves into ...

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia's Far East is sending tsunami waves to Hawaii, Alaska, California and Oregon.

The world’s oceans experienced a staggering amount of warming in 2023, as vast marine heat waves affected 96% of their surface.

Based on SAR remote sensing observation and theoretical calculation, the internal solitary waves (ISWs) in the Arctic Kara Sea are studied. A total of 320 Sentinel-1 SAR remote sensing images between ...

The goal is to more accurately track marine temperatures and monitor marine heat waves, helping to improve our understanding of how climate change is affecting the ocean.

When thinking of rogue waves breaking out in the middle of the ocean, for surfers at least, one liquid monstrosity comes to mind – Cortes Bank, the mythical big wave gauntlet breaking some 100 ...

Two people were swept away by a wave in Ocean Shores while they were surf fishing, Wednesday. They were pronounced dead at the beach.