Besides, ancient earth was likely a hostile place due to a number of factors – the extreme weather, predatory dinosaurs, and ...

Ocean and the Environment. After a really big storm like Sandy “it looks like somebody attacked the [sea] floor with ill intent,” Trembanis said. At surface level, the waves from Sandy were large and ...

The most powerful waves were discovered in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, but the North Atlantic Ocean experienced the highest increase in wave energy over the past 40 years compared ...

Like any self-respecting big wave surfer, the 24-year-old Slebir and his pals constantly watched the data captured by buoys hundreds of miles out in the Pacific Ocean that could predict wave ...

Big waves and hazardous beach conditions are expected along the coast early this week as the Bay Area sheds its overcast drizzle, temperatures rise inland and a chance of light rain returns for ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people who have always dreamed of getting up close to the bombing barrels in ...

As the ocean hammered the coast of California this week, video captured across the state made waves on the internet as observers took to social media to share dramatic footage of the heavy surf.

The big break was that the Draupner platform ... Interactions between wave swells and ocean currents are also suspected to be a way for rogue waves to form. This mechanism is thought to be at ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

The Manhattan Beach surf photographer spent a year chasing waves in Tahiti and Portugal for the movie, to be shown on a ...