Greenland’s vast ice sheet is not just shrinking, it is rearranging the physics of the oceans around it. As the ice melts and ...

The ocean is warming as the upper atmosphere is cooling – both as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.

A duck paddles gently across the surface, creating small ripples and enjoying a quiet, peaceful moment.

Abstract: Accurate and high-resolution sea ice concentration (SIC) mapping is essential for polar navigation, environmental monitoring, and assimilation into forecast models. Traditional passive ...

In the U.S., Winter Storm Fern set snow records in parts of the country last weekend, quickly followed by one of the longest ...

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 ...

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a surfer rode a 101-foot-tall wave at Nazaré, setting a new world record.