Oceanography

A message in a plastic bottle is a concise communication placed inside a sealed container and released into a waterway or ocean to inform, connect, or document movement. Origina...

Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of the world’s five oceans. The state lies within the North Pacific Ocean, roughly 2,000 miles from the continental Uni...

The Bering Sea forms the northern connection between the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic and lies between Alaska to the east and Russia to the west. It is a high-latitude, seasonal...

The deep sea — below approximately 200 meters where sunlight fades — is the largest biome on Earth, yet less explored than the surface of the Moon. New deep sea discoveries...

What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean right now centers on large-scale, persistent patterns rather than any single event. The North Atlantic gyre circulates warm surface water...