On the Great Lakes, waves build without warning and water churns with a cold, erratic energy. Waves are steep and packed close.

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, ...

At 3:00 p.m. on New Year's Day in 1995, work stopped on the deck of the Norwegian Draupner oil platform, which stood isolated out in the middle of the tempestuous North Sea. The wind had grown too ...

A helicopter trying to claw its way into the air from the surface of the ocean, only to be dragged under by the waves, ...

Heat waves don’t just strike on land — they can also occur in the ocean. And roughly a third of marine heat waves aren’t detectable at the ocean’s surface, a new study reports. The findings, published ...

This eco-conscious, full-featured web browser automatically removes trash and plastic from the ocean and waterways with each ...

Extreme ocean winds and waves have become more common over the past three decades, according to scientists who warn climate change could be causing the trend. A team of experts at the University of ...

Supercomputer simulations of planetary-scale interactions show how ocean storms and the structure of Earth's upper layers together generate much of the world's seismic waves. Decoding the faint but ...

The ocean has been getting more dangerous recently. According to a recent study, both extreme winds and wave heights are increasing across the globe. Winds have risen by as much as 1.5 meters per ...

Strong winds are driving the ocean’s biggest waves to dizzying new heights. That’s the potentially ominous finding of new research that analyzed more than 30 years’ worth of global wind and wave ...