the wind had been light through the first 110 miles of Storm Trysail Club’s annual springtime Block Island Race, and as we were making our way back toward the finish, we found ourselves navigating ...

Researchers have produced the first global map showing how ocean tides travel upstream into coastal rivers, a dataset that ...

I was very lucky to have grown up with access to the Atlantic Coast. Since I was a little kid, I spent my summers fishing and crabbing at the Jersey Shore. This access pushed me into spending too much ...

The ocean could be a boundless source of cheap energy, if only we could figure out how to tap it. A British startup has just announced an intriguing new idea: A long fence of shallow water turbines ...

Potential benefits of tidal energy as a renewable-energy source. What is a tidal barrage power system? U.K. efforts to implement tidal power. A major source of tidal energy comes from the natural rise ...

KIRKWALL, Scotland — Huddled inside what looks like a tanker ship anchored about two miles from shore, engineers from the Spanish company Magallanes Renovables monitor two giant rotors below the hull ...

Sub-surface oceans probably exist on several large satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. An analysis of Europa's tides suggests that some of the Rossby waves are resonantly enhanced by the obliquity, ...

Forecasters expect a persistent onshore flow to develop tonight that will likely generate several cycles of minor tidal flooding. National Weather Service forecasters expect the strongest winds ...

Salt intrusion is a growing concern worldwide. Eleonora Saccon, who completed a master's degree in climate change ecology in her native Italy, studied the effects of salty surface water at the NIOZ ...