On the Great Lakes, waves build without warning and water churns with a cold, erratic energy. Waves are steep and packed ...

A fierce and persistent storm 800 miles off the California coast is continuing to churn water to dangerous levels across the Pacific Ocean – generating surf that will ease on Christmas Day but return ...

Large waves near San Francisco have prompted warnings for Californians to remain out of the water. The National Weather Service (NWS) office in San Francisco issued a beach hazards statement early ...

TROPICS: Erin is now a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic. The storm continues to track north of the Dominican Republic and will pass between North Carolina and Bermuda this week. We will see only ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

Cortes Bank, a shallow seamount 100 miles into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, is a mystical place; a legendary, yet fabled spot in the world of big-wave surfing. But Cortes Bank is also ...

Tsunami waves struck Hawaii shortly after 7 p.m. local time on Thursday July 29 following a powerful earthquake off Russia’s eastern coastline. Although initial concerns prompted evacuation orders in ...

As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett McNamara doesn’t scare easily. Perhaps best known for taking on huge walls of ...