Tiny fossils from Hokkaido are revealing a surprisingly mobile ancient ocean during a warmer world. A team led by researchers at Kumamoto University has identified a new genus of microscopic ...

A joint research effort among various countries has found microplastics in Indonesian ocean regions up to a depth of 2,450 meters.

Wind howls and waves roar as storms rage over the open ocean. But even as gusts reach hurricane strength and swells rise as high as six-story buildings, the violent effects of these storms only reach ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and unidentifiable pieces of plastic that ...

Ocean currents in the Bay of Bengal were seen turning left of the wind, revealing limits in Ekman’s century-old circulation theory.