What is the Largest Island in the Pacific Ocean?
New Guinea is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean.
New Guinea is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean.
One of the lowest latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere where sea ice forms in the Northern Hemisphere is the Sea of Okhotsk.
A review of available studies, published in Science in January 2019, has revealed that the rate of ocean warming is as much as 40% faster than that suggested by IPCC.
Polynya is an oceanography term borrowed from the Russian (полынья) to refer to an open body of water surrounded by ice.
A newly released forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted that the Gulf of Mexico will again become the second-largest low-oxygen dead zone on after (after the Baltic Sea).
A recent publication in JGR Oceans took a look at how the physical processes of oceans affect the distribution of micro plastics around the world.
Since hurricanes are fueled by ocean heat, warmer ocean conditions will influence their intensity and longevity.
The European Space Agency’s Swarm satellites are investigating the Earth’s magnetic field and the part that shifting ocean tides play.
Point Nemo is a pole of inaccessibility that marks the furthest location from the ocean to the nearest coastline.
A team of researchers analyzes what is happening to animal migration as the Pacific and Atlantic oceans connect due to Arctic melt in an article published in Global Change Biology.
The number of oceans in the world depends on the perspective.
A look at the geographic definitions of oceans and seas.