A 900-pound ocean sunfish was found dead this week after washing up on the shore of a Cape Cod beach.

Tides are usually explained by the moon, and that explanation is correct and incomplete. The moon’s pull produces a tidal range in the open ocean of roughly a metre. That is the raw signal, and it is ...

Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed?

As king tide season begins, local ocean rescue officials are urging beachgoers to use caution around sandbars and rising ...

Tide levels can vary by almost a meter across a single bay, according to a new study that uses decades of satellite images to measure tides at the scale of individual beaches. Researchers at ...

Coastal tides can differ measurably between neighboring beaches, and 40 years of satellite images now map them every 330 feet ...

The short answer is no. No single person, country, or organization owns the entire ocean. Instead, different parts of the ocean are governed under different rules. Coastal nations have authority over ...

Forecasting rapid intensification is notoriously difficult. Monitoring sea surface temperature gradients could help.

A Contra Costa County native is fighting to recover after breaking his neck while attempting to save two children caught in a Southern California rip current. Josh Collette, 42, of Concord, jumped ...

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We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to appear in this is a global proliferation of tentacled creatures known as cephalopods, and in ...