What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

Using both the photosynthetically active chlorophyll a (chl a) content of the organic carbon fraction of suspended particulate matter (chl a/POC) and the percentage of photosynthetically active chl a ...

If you haven’t seen this video, than you must! It is an amazing intersection of human adaptation with oceanic phenomena, in this case the Inuit of Kangiqsujuaq ...

ON the coasts of the British Islands and generally on the European coasts of the North Atlantic and throughout the North Sea, the tides present in their main features an exceptional simplicity, two ...

If you soak in the sun from the same spot on the beach all day, you might notice the water retreating from you or inching closer. This is the tide changing throughout the day, and it’s all possible ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Strolling along the beach, you find seashells and seaweed left behind by the receding tides at your feet. When you gaze up at the moon, you’re looking at the primary cause for the ebb ...

ON A STATE LEVEL. ALL RIGHT. THE THREE WORDS THAT NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO HEAR ACTIVE HURRICANE SEASON. WE MAY BE HEARING IT A LOT OF THIS SUMMER SINCE ONE HURRICANE FORECAST IS NOW PREDICTING 23 NAMED ...

Five million years ago, the Colorado River met the Gulf of California near the present-day desert town of Blythe, California. The evidence, say geologists, is in the sedimentary rocks exposed at the ...