This former lifeguard helped launch an ocean safety campaign in Australia. Can his tips for escaping deadly rip currents save ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – As Spring Break approaches, a new tool is being used in Volusia County to give swimmers firsthand experience of the dangers of rip currents. Volusia County Beach Safety on ...

When waves break near the shoreline, water piles up between the wave and the beach. One of the ways the water returns to the ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — It is just one scenario among many, but by far the most cataclysmic. Sometime over the next 100 years, human-driven warming could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat ...

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...

Discover how the Coriolis effect shapes weather patterns across the globe, including ocean currents and a hurricane’s spin. The coriolis effect influences everything from trade winds to storms.

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion. Surface currents are driven by wind blowing across the sea surface, and ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

Two recent events involving coastal currents raise the question of which way the nearshore waters flow along the Central Coast. One of these was the tragic death of a swimmer at Lover’s Point in ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists’ attention. Working together, they linked the ...

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and in 2026, there are big concerns about climate change driving more extreme weather and health impacts for those of us who live here. This week, an arctic ...