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In October 2010, the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami killed more than 500 people and displaced more than 20,000. Less than three years later, SurfAid returned to Mentawai Islands and Nias to check how the initial help had evolved.
On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific garbage patch.
A Brazilian and Japanese research submarine has discovered evidence of an underwater continent 900 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Average wave heights will decrease across 25 percent of the global ocean and increase across 7 percent of the ocean due to climate change.
The Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to discover Australia, according to a 16th-century maritime map found in a library vault.
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The number of seaside communities whose beaches are losing sand is growing exponentially. What are the explanations for coastal erosion, and what can be done to mitigate its devastating impact?
There is a place on Earth where the difference between low and high tide reaches 53.6 feet (16.3 meters). It's the Bay of Fundy in Canada. You've got to see it to believe it.
Welcome to the Drake Passage, the world's most dangerous sea route, home to 65-foot-plus waves. Here's why the 620-mile stretch between Cape Horn and Antarctica is treacherous and has become the ultimate extreme sailing adventure.
A fourth global coral bleaching wave is sweeping the world's oceans.