What if skyscraper-high waves rose in empty oceans and nobody saw them until satellites did? That is exactly what happened, ...

Eleven days after it first formed and six days after it peaked as a scale-topping Category 5 storm, Erin lost its tropical characteristics as the system raced past Nova Scotia on Friday. While it’s no ...

Millions of people across three states on the west coast of the U.S. have been advised to “stay away” from beaches and ...

RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Erin kicked up big waves Thursday along the mid-Atlantic coast and began a slow march out to sea after pelting North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and swells ...

The ecology of the North Atlantic is constantly changing. Sometimes it changes abruptly. Extreme events are one driver of ...

Dangerously large waves of up to 45 feet are expected on most north shores this weekend, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a high surf warning through noon Monday. The warning, which ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...