Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Boundary currents in the ocean impact our climate on a wide range of scales. The Gulf Stream, for example, being one of the prominent western boundary ...

After sifting through ocean current data dating back three decades, researchers at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

Located off the coast of Ecuador, Paramount seamount is among the kinds of ocean floor features that certain ocean-observing ...

It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the ...

A new study has used 30 years of data to find areas with the highest potential for generating energy from ocean currents ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...

One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...