The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic to ...

The Pacific Ocean is known as the King of Oceans because it is the largest and deepest ocean in the world, covering the ...

Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment this summer in ocean waters south of Martha’s Vineyard. The experiment to tinker with the pH of a patch of ocean ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 5 (September 2017), pp. 1895-1909 (15 pages) Recent observations of N₂ fixation rates (NFR) and the presence of nitrogenase (nifH) genes from heterotrophic ...

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, brought violent winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica after making landfall Tuesday and continues to threaten parts of the Caribbean as it tracks through.

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Climate change is changing the chemistry of the Earth’s oceans ...

This infrared image from the GOES-11 satellite shows the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2011 at 1200 UTC (7 a.m. EST/4 a.m. PST). Waves from the powerful 8.9 Richter scale earthquake in Japan created a ...