That means it is coming from the direction of the ocean and moving east towards the land. Offshore Flow: When the wind is moving from east to west.

Oceans, Atmosphere and Land are Linked. Along with devastating impacts to people, important ecosystems are also damaged by the impacts of droughts and heat waves that move between oceans and land, ...

David Attenborough’s new documentary reveals a critical need to protect marine life – or risk losing everything, writes JASON ...

image: Land and ocean in Australia. view more Credit: PNAS. Researchers report an association between ocean warming and trends in continental humidity and temperature.

A new study carried out at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and published this week in the journal Science examines how fast animal and plant ...

Scientists now estimate that 80 percent of Earth’s species live on land, 15 percent in the ocean, and the remaining 5 percent in freshwater. They do not think this difference is entirely an ...

Essentially, salt is coming from both directions—land and the ocean—and meeting in the middle, representing a “double trouble” issue for freshwater tidal basins, Kaushal said.

With fewer ways to seek refuge from warming, ocean-dwelling species are disappearing from their habitats at twice the rate of those on land, notes the research published Wednesday in the journal ...

A picture shows a large ocean wave and the acronym PFAS under a magnifying glass (inset). A new study has found that waves can reemit chemicals into the atmosphere.