Strong thunderstorms are expected to start firing up in the early evening Wednesday. And some storms could dump 2 to 3 inches ...

A new invited commentary by Ke Chen, associate scientist in the Physical Oceanography department at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

The E-6B aircraft provides the National Command Authority with "survivable, reliable, and endurable" nuclear command.

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Just south of Greenland, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, a strange area of water has been confounding scientists for years.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...

For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water ...

It developed in open waters west of the Azores and hundreds of miles east of Bermuda. It was only briefly strong enough to count as a tropical storm, but Andrea nonetheless entered the record books as ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...