Understanding the dynamics of how water moves is deceptively simple in concept and endlessly complex in practice. Real-world marine environments are anything but controlled: weather, seasons, and ...

It's a mess out there, say researchers.

The waves of summer visitors arriving at some Gulf Coast beaches this month are encountering a problem: Seaweed is everywhere ...

Alabama is watching the Gulf as hurricane season nears, with warm waters and active weather raising early concerns for storms ...

While predictions are for a "below-normal" season, forecasters continue to warn residents to prepare for the season and the ...

Health officials threw some cold water on weekend swim plans Friday, warning that bacteria counts at several popular spots, ...

Twenty years ago, meteorologists could sketch the rough geography of risk almost from memory. Gulf Coast states from Texas to ...

U-M reseachers have used a U.S. Navy ocean forecasting model to help bring ocean patterns into clearer focus, potentially benefitting weather forecast models.

Drought conditions gripping Florida and much of the Southeast could heighten the dangers posed by hurricanes in the coming ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

An unusually heavy sargassum season is reshaping beach conditions and rankings across Florida.

Such harm could come in a number of ways. A strike on Kharg island has the clearest potential to cause a big, enormously ...