Did you know that a hurricane or tropical storm has never crossed the equator? The reason behind this fascinating phenomenon ...

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, or AMOC for short, comprises an enormous system of currents that carries water ...

National Hurricane Center forecasters on June 8 said tropical activity in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Gulf of America is unlikely for now.

For large swaths of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, neither PCB nor organochlorine pesticide dissolved concentrations varied much longitudinally, probably due to efficient mixing by ocean currents. In ...

The highest chances for hot and rainy weather are in Florida's Panhandle on Friday, but no tropical weather is expected.

With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm ...

Satellite images early Friday show Saharan dust over the Florida peninsula and the eastern Gulf. What that means for the ...

Every year around this time, the Sahara Desert in Africa experiences peak emissions that sends dust particles across the ...

To start last hurricane season, waters across the Atlantic Main Development Region or MDR – where most of our strongest hurricanes form during the peak months of the hurricane season – were ...

The world's oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface. They're filled with currents, some much stronger than the fastest ...