Seawalls have long served as a primary defense against coastal erosion and storm surges. Typically constructed of concrete ...

When she walked into her first student board meeting. Tiara Moore saw "30 eyeballs all on white faces." She calls up this startling memory in her paper, "The Only Black Person in the Room," which was ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

Sharks are abandoning coral reefs as ocean temperatures rise, leaving these vibrant ecosystems at risk of collapse. Without ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a high rip current risk alert for South Florida's Atlantic coastline through Sunday evening, warning of hazardous ocean conditions that could endanger ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

The ocean serves as a sanctuary for a quick dip, a walk along the shore or a surf break between classes. However, its powers ...

Mesoscale eddies can affect how sound waves propagate in the ocean, depending on their size, speed, current direction and ...

Communities on the banks of India’s Vembanad Lake face an uncertain future as ocean surges and flooding worsen with climate change.

Free-living prokaryotic cells are rarely found in the deep sea and little is known about the potential for life in the vast, low-temperature (<100°C) reservoir of fluids within mid-ocean ridge (MOR) ...

With less water in a desert climate, the lake’s salinity has surged to almost double the ratio of ocean water while oxygen levels decreased, making it virtually impossible for fish to survive ...