OCEAN CITY, Md. — Ocean City closed its beaches to swimmers and surfers earlier today because of rough surf. Officials ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.

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A "wild" video shows the moment waves from Hurricane Erin crashed into homes in the Outer Banks. The North Carolina homes ...

Beachgoers in Ventura, CA were slammed with monstrous, over 20-foot-tall waves from an offshore storm on Thursday morning that crashed over seawalls and sent flooding into coastal streets. In ...

Hurricane Erin is expected to impact the Outer Banks in North Carolina, sending massive waves crashing into the islands.

Dramatic, weird, funny photos celebrating our oceans' wonders, the human connection with the sea and its creatures and highlighting the urgent need to protect them.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves.

Australia's islands are as beautiful and diverse as you imagine, with gorgeous beaches, of course, but abundant in nature and history as well. They range from gorgeous coral atolls to wild, windswept ...