Fill the wash basin or kitchen sink with water and pull out the plug. Watch how the water drains. It swirls around rapidly, ...

A salty soup of seawater, microscopic pieces of plastic and marine debris. Those are the ingredients in the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean vortex estimated by Greenpeace to be the size of Texas, ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is stuck again. For more than 30 years, the giant frozen block — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island — was grounded on the sea floor in Antarctic coastal waters.

The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the ...