New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the ...

Acoustic-gravity waves are very long sound waves that cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound. These lightning-quick currents can sweep up water, nutrients, salts, and any other particles in ...

Scientists exploring the deep sea have discovered a distinctive kind of breaking wave. The finding reveals the presence of a subtle new force that can stir the dark seabed, and it helps to explain ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that lingered in Delaware last week erode shorelines and the beach and dunes. But it turns ...

The chaos from skyscraper-tall waves breaking deep underwater has been captured for the first time, researchers say. Turbulence from these waves can generate thousands of times more mixing in the deep ...

Tsunamis, also known as seismic sea waves, can be devastating. In 2004, a 100-foot wave in the Indian Ocean resulted in at least 230,000 deaths in one of the deadliest natural disasters in human ...