Its collapse would have devastating consequences, causing severe droughts, Europe to freeze, sea levels to rise and the ocean – a critical carbon sink – would not take in as much of the greenhouse ...

The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. Squeezed into the narrow passage, the current increases, traveling west to ...

The image looks almost abstract at first, a set of pale bands sweeping across the Pacific that could be mistaken for clouds or camera noise. In reality, it is the signature of a wall of water ...

For most people, a cruise is the ultimate getaway—relaxing on deck, enjoying endless ocean views, and indulging in luxury ...

(CNN) — It’s the body of water that instils fear and inspires sailors in equal measure. Six hundred miles of open sea, and some of the roughest conditions on the planet – with an equally inhospitable ...

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake Passage, ...