The number of salmon returning to the Columbia and Snake rivers this year is expected to beat the 10-year average return. That’s according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm ...

When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

From the Arctic to the Southern, the five ocean basins are home to thousands of marine life and millions of square miles of water. The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

However, sea level change also occurs over millions of years as geological processes gradually reshape Earth's ocean basins and change their total storage volume. Colleen Dalton and colleagues ...