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Canadian forecasters are warning warmer-than-average ocean waters and the lack of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean will contribute to an "active" hurricane season this year. More...

Scientists are raising the alarm as the Arctic Ocean is becoming more acidic, and at a more rapid pace than other oceans. More...

AP - Three members of a Canadian family attempting to cross the Pacific in a sailboat have been rescued after being thrown into the ocean after encountering strong winds and rough seas that battered and disabled their vessel hundreds of miles from Hawaii. More...

The search has been suspended for 17 crewmen missing at sea after the sinking of a Korean fishing vessel in the frigid ocean waters around Antarctica, a New Zealand rescue agency said Tuesday. Twenty survivors and five dead were were recovered after the Korean-owned-and-operated No. 1 Insung...

COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- A boater on Thursday discovered the body of a man wearing a black wetsuit floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Cocoa Beach, authorities said. The body was found about 12 miles offshore, according to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. Homicide agents and U.S. Coast Guard...

Teenage U.S. sailor reunited with brother SAINT-DENIS, Réunion, (UPI) -- A U.S. teenager on a world-circling sailing attempt arrived on an Indian Ocean island after a rescue when her ship's mast broke in high seas, authorities said. Abby Sunderland was reunited with her brother at the French...

Ancient ocean may have covered 1/3 of Mars BOULDER, Colo., (UPI) -- A NASA-funded study suggests a vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars about 3.5 billion years ago. University of Colorado at Boulder scientists said their study is the first to combine an analysis of...

Rower Roz completed trans-Pacific voyage MADANG, Papua New Guinea, (UPI) -- Britain's Roz Savage says she feels like she made thousands of new friends after she rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean. Savage, 42, rowed Friday into Papua New Guinea where she was greeted by about 5,000 people who...

Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be...