In his book, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, Jonathan White embarks on a journey “across the globe to discover the largest, fastest, most dangerous and breathtaking tides in the world.” In ...

At Shark Reef Sanctuary in Washington state's San Juan Islands, you can hear the rapids before you see them. But it's not a river that's singing out. It's the turning tide between Lopez and San Juan ...

June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy and took the Nazis by surprise in the largest sea-to-land invasion in history. This... Why the science of tides was crucial for D-Day ...

The tide goes in, the tide goes out... and we can explain that! This week, we’re exploring that slow ebb and flow across the globe. * As gradual as those rises and falls can be, they’re impressive in ...

English science writer Aldersey-Williams (In Search of Thomas Browne) capably serves as a guide to the tide, a powerful, often underappreciated force of nature. He begins his examination by ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - While spending time at the beach, you’ve probably heard the phrase high tide or low tide, and how those change with time each day. Even though the change in tides takes time, ...

Before you listen to this talk by Jonathan White, you might want to be somewhere by the sea as the moon rises or sets. That would be ideal. If not that, be somewhere where you can search maps of all ...

The same tides that affect ocean waves can trigger earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault, and scientists unexpectedly find that these quakes are more likely to happen as tides are ...

Florida’s red tide, which was declared an emergency by Gov. Rick Scott on Monday, has been devastating marine life on Florida’s Gulf Coast this summer. Beaches have been littered with dead sea life as ...

Science combined with politics is really hard. Ask Michael Crosby, the chief executive officer of Sarasota-based Mote Marine Laboratory, who has been swept up in the politics of red tide science. Red ...

Exceptionally high tides are common when the moon is closest to the Earth, known as perigee, and when it's either full or new. In the case of what's informally known as a super full moon, it's both ...