It's almost certain that El Niño is coming later this year, and we don't know how strong it will be, but some scientists ...

Brinicles are a combination of brine and icicles that grow underneath ice shelves in the ocean. While they're technically just a sliver of super-cooled ice that grows downwards, brinicles have also ...

In a coastal laboratory in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, a team of scientists is putting the final touches on an ...

The ocean is vast and mysterious, and while we're just beginning to understand rogue waves, its sister phenomenon is proving ...

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The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used to illustrate this concept is a butterfly flapping its wings only to cause ...

Ocean is said to be unexplored. It is so, but it is also a deception.Because what we have explored already doesn’t behave the way we expect it to.According to marine research carried out by ...

Oceans cover more of 70 percent of Earth. While a large part of the these waters remain unexplored, there are many naturally occurring phenomena around or within oceans that have been observed. These ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interesting during the day but magical at night, an expert explains the natural phenomenon one woman spotted at a Melbourne beach ...