Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

Since the late 1980s multibeam sonar has been providing highly detailed images of a large area of the sea floor.

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How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake - one of the strongest ever recorded - struck in the Pacific Ocean off Russia's far east coast.

Gil is the seventh named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2025. Storms that form in the Atlantic or the Pacific ...

The MPA Day team encourages one and all to celebrate this day on August 1 through shared stories, talks, online and ocean-based activities.

Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves.

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

An interactive resource from NOAA, powered by spatial analytics company Esri, lets you stay on top of critical information as ...

Most of southern California is currently under a tsunami advisory while Humboldt County and north of there is under a more ...