In the final days of 2016, President Barack Obama used the Antiquities Act to protect the 296,937-acre expanse, citing its ...

New research shows endangered sea turtles hear low ship noise clearly, raising questions about how busy coastlines affect their lives.

Industrial fishing has become so routine that it is easy to forget how violent it is to the sea itself. One technique in ...

Fresh fried soft shells, salty air, and a dockside rhythm locals trust, this Virginia Beach stop keeps coastal flavor simple, and deeply satisfying.

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but it’s nothing like what we get from satellites ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...