A new invited commentary by Ke Chen, associate scientist in the Physical Oceanography department at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

Ocean robots installed off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters of the continental shelf ...

Obama Creates Connecticut-Size Ocean Park, First in Atlantic. The first national monument in the Atlantic will protect deep canyons along the continental shelf and a chain of extinct undersea ...

A gargantuan Antarctic iceberg five times the size of New York City and as thick as the Empire State Building is drifting away from the continental ice shelf toward the South Atlantic Ocean.

If the U.S. Wants a Bigger Continental Shelf, ... is entirely underwater. It includes parts of the seabed off the Atlantic coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, ... and in the Arctic Ocean.