Atlantic Ocean ・ Size: Second largest ocean, spanning over 41 million square miles. ・ Formation: The Atlantic formed about ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology.Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

The Indian Ocean has a gravity hole where sea levels are about 300 feet lower than nearby areas. Local gravity is slightly lower there, which has puzzled scientists for decades.

That fits into what is often seen in recent Indian Ocean dipole events. In October, for example, heavy rain led to floods and landslides in Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, leaving four ...

Shineng Hu, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Oceanography and Alexey Fedorov, a professor of oceanic and atmospheric sciences at Yale University, said the Indian Ocean warming might have the ...