In December 2024, satellites captured an extraordinary phenomenon in the heart of the ocean—waves that soared to nearly 66 ...

Satellite data from the SWOT mission reveals how massive waves act as storm "messengers," carrying a storm's power across ...

Marine heat waves are another example of weather events being supercharged by an overheating planet. To see how much a ...

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific ...

Tiny red robot sailboats deployed in the Atlantic Ocean can withstand 24-foot waves and Category 4 hurricanes while measuring ...

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are ...

Hurricane Erin would have the potential to trigger 100-foot waves as it moves across the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, according to forecasters. Currently classified as a tropical storm, Erin could ...

Giant ocean waves engulfing tiny boats are the stuff of nightmares—but it turns out rivers also form flood waves that are nothing to sneeze at. That’s according to researchers from Virginia Tech and ...

Of all the world’s novelty river waves, none are as popular, as well-documented, as the one on the North Shore of Oahu’s Waimea Bay. Perhaps it’s because the wave breaks dead center in the most famed ...

Researchers have used data from the NASA-French Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to detect and analyze large-scale river waves traveling down major rivers in the United States, ...