Published: Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 13:34 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing...

If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing.After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.But if you were just across the pond in Porto, Portugal, which shares New York's la...

By Jacques Hallé, World Weather Post In the southern part of South Padre Island Texas, there is too much sand at the bottom of the Brownsville channel entrance. At the same ...