He and the National Geographic Society’s map policy committee had been considering the change for years, watching as scientists and the press increasingly used the term Southern Ocean.

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

Ocean explorers spotted what looked like a "yellow brick road" to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean in 2022. Here's what we know ...

The Southern Ocean, which girds the planet in the latitudes ... I started with the man who put it on the map. Hrvoje Lukatela, a Croatian-born engineer, left his homeland in the 1970s as political ...

The king tides occur when the sun, moon and Earth align, resulting in a stronger gravitational force that raises the ocean's ...

A new element of strategic competition is emerging in the Southern Ocean—in Australia’s backyard—in the form of Beijing’s ...

High pressure is more dominant and significant this week across New Zealand but as it moves through it will bring a couple surges of windy westerlies, as powerful storms remain over the Southern Ocean ...

As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean ... in Australia put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing to drill into the rock of an ...

The National Hurricane Center said Monday a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop in the Caribbean Sea in a few ...

A low pressure system in the Pacific Ocean could bring some substantial rainfall to Southern California this weekend. That ...

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full ...

Thanks to light northwesterly winds, those fires, located in portions of Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, and Ocean Counties ...