It’s partly because the sea is enclosed by land on many sides—waves don’t have much space to spread out and build giant peaks. When the tail end of a ... like a roar,” she says.

Sound waves travel 4.3 times faster underwater than they do in the air and they retain their energy for much longer. Many sea creatures depend on sound, and have evolved complex systems of ...

For centuries, inhabitants of the picturesque coastal town of Mutriku have drawn from the ocean's riches. Now they're harnessing its immense power. The Basque town of Mutriku owes its soul to the sea.

“It’s total chaos,” Surf School Santa Cruz owner Bud Freitas told The Times ... pulled out to sea, police said. They were unable to help him because of the huge waves and strong current.

Six hundred miles of open sea, and some of the roughest conditions on the planet – with an equally inhospitable land of snow and ice awaiting you at the end of ... can see waves topping nearly ...

Broken wood, debris and a building floated in the ocean after the end of ... to stronger waves — which strike multiple times a minute — also causes wear that California’s sea structures ...

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska — This tiny island in the middle of the Bering Sea had recently completed ... He stood on the shore, looking out over the waves to the small spit of land, all that ...

By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team ... which has been churning and strengthening over the Coral Sea. Although the storm is expected to stay offshore ...