Forces deep inside the Earth make Africa split apart and create a pathway for a new ocean to form. The East African Rift, a huge crack in the Earth’s surface, is the center of this activity.

With an extraordinary width of around 300 miles (480 kilometers), this unseen giant is a critical player in our planet’s ocean circulation. This gigantic waterfall only exists due to the convergence ...

On Boxing Day – 26 December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, unleashing a massive tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean. Waves as high as 51 meters (167 feet) ...

Two people were rescued and a third swam to safety after a California pier under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean Monday as the state’s central coast was pounded by heavy ...

Jayarasa Abilash, known as Baby 81 after he was swept away by the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami, stands in front of a monument built in memory of tsunami victims outside his residence in Kurukkalmadam ...

ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Danielle Hall Amid a torrent of alarming headlines calling out rising sea temperatures, melting ice sheets and struggling coral reefs, new discoveries about ...

Frank Ocean's "White Ferrari" drives into the top 10 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, earning the R&B ... [+] superstar his first top 10 smash on the social media-focused list. MANCHESTER ...

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...

Traditional methods tend to rely on slow and expensive ship-based surveys and, even after decades of effort, vast expanses of the ocean floor remain unknown. These blind spots have limited our ...

Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...

Did you now jellyfish have been bobbing in the ocean way before even the dinosaurs? Learn more about one of the planet's most unusual sea animals: jellies. Ocean recovery is happening. We can see it ...