When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes ...

The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Hurricanes feed off of warm ocean waters. What happens then when that ocean heat is made 400 times more likely due to human-caused climate change? You get record-shattering Hurricane Beryl. Unusually ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

UD professor and students head out on the Hugh R. Sharp Research Vessel to study the boundary between the ocean and the air The boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, where the air and sea ...

The temperature of the planet’s oceans rose to new heights this week, setting a new record with no sign of cooling down. The average global ocean surface temperature hit 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.7 ...

Scientists are running out of extreme adjectives to describe the state of the world’s oceans. Global sea surface temperatures are spiking off the charts. The North Atlantic Ocean, in particular, has ...

Tropical upwelling zones are often overshadowed by their higher-latitude counterparts in ocean science, yet they play an ...