ocean

The annual red crab migration, when millions of the crustaceans emerge from the forest and scramble to the ocean, is one focal point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Prof Joan Costa-i-Font, an economist at the London School of Economics calls schemes like this a "drop in the ocean".

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Warmer tropical seas make the winds that drive El Nino more responsive to the ocean, tightening the feedback between the two and letting events build faster, he explained.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The storm swells come amid a growing El Niño, a climate pattern characterized by warming ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific, as well as increased rainfall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, Duane rushed through the grassy meadows and around the berry bushes and onto the Fabulous Beach in time to see the ocean fog moving ever closer to the Shipwreck.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The Panama Canal greatly reduces the time and distance ships have to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Mosasaurs were large marine reptiles that inhabited oceans around the world during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 98 to 66 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

An alternative Arctic route, the Northwest Passage that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Canadian Arctic, is less passable because it is dominated by narrow waterways where ice gets bunched up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“This creates far too many opportunities for something to go wrong, and when something does go wrong, it’s our oceans, beaches, wildlife and coastal economy that pay the price.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

But the main thing to know is this: The whole time, from before any of those extinctions, from life’s origins until this minute, jellyfish have been there, pulsing their way across the oceans and back.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin