While 100 year waves – at up to 14 metres in height – may not be what many seafarers wish to encounter, their now greater frequency could be just the news some surfers are waiting to hear.
Now measurements from a deep-water buoy moored off the Oregon coast since the mid-1970s indicate that the “100-year” [...]

Another 13 things that don’t make sense on Earth and around the cosmos… from weird sounds in the oceans to diseases that apparently don’t exist even if people suffer from them.
Bookmark for weekend reading.

The Earth hums to itself and it looks as if the source of the “buzz” has finally been identified.
After discovering the mysterious low-frequency buzz in 1998, scientists figured out that the Earth’s hum is caused not by earthquakes or atmospheric turbulence, but by ocean waves colliding with the seafloor. Now, researchers have pinpointed the source [...]

In the spirit of the Voyager space probes, which are carrying messages from humanity into the cosmos, Good Magazine is giving readers the chance to be involved in a project to send “a message of optimism out to sea”.
Rather than dispatching messages via a space craft though, a slightly less sophisticated method of transmission will [...]

Interesting article that looks at wave power, a renewable source of energy that has been largely overlooked so far, in favour of other alternative power sources, such as solar and wind energy.
You only have to look at waves pounding a beach, inexorably wearing cliffs into rubble and pounding stones into sand, to appreciate the power [...]