CHINA has unveiled plans for a deep-sea mega-lab that will be hidden 6,500ft down in the bitterly contested South China Sea. The underwater base will study “cold seep” ecosystems ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that lingered in Delaware last week erode shorelines and the beach and dunes.

Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily ... Alexander Behm sails the North Sea and bounces sound waves off its bottom, advancing a new method of depth measurement known as echo sounding.

Waves are a form of energy which in the case of ocean waves, lifts water up as it ... one metre wide and one metre deep. Even the smallest waves we can surf lift thousands of cubic metres of ...