Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

Bethany Kolody prepares water samples aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown, during the P18 GO-SHIP voyage from Easter Island to Antarctica in the Sout ...

As some of the worst fires in Los Angeles history swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods in January ...

On a recent morning, the R/V Echo, a 26-foot landing craft custom-built for the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University ...

This has been one of numerous problems plaguing the fisherfolk around the Aral Sea, a shallow basin of salt water straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south.

Beaches might be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Florida or California but likely not when contemplating Iowa, Nebraska, or the Dakotas. Yet every state has stellar beaches.

Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a ...