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 ...

Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment this summer in ocean waters south of Martha’s Vineyard.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 ...

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.

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

The Hadley Circulation (HC) plays a crucial role in distributing heat and moisture around the planet. Over recent decades, surface warming has caused the HC to expand poleward, expanding subtropical ...

(via PBS Eons) This is the hundred-year tale of how an unlikely bunch of bottom-dwelling marine critters helped reveal that ocean basins are basically reincarnated every few hundred million years.

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, ...

The I2U2 (India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and United States) partnership, while not a military alliance, is key to security in the Indian Ocean basin. Each partner has an interest in trade, ...