• The data showed that the conditions were perfect for a monstrous storm in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

    CNN: Forecasting "The Perfect Storm"

  • But even exhaustion doesn't keep me from getting up at 3 a.m. for yet another astounding view: the swirling Northern Lights, like ocean bioluminescence in the sky.

    WSJ: Heli-Skiing in Greenland

  • Lake Powell is huge -- 186 miles long, with 1, 960 miles of shoreline (more than the Pacific Ocean coastline from northern Washington to southern California).

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Shell first obtained licences from the US Department of the Interior in 2005 to explore the Arctic ocean off the northern and north-western coasts of Alaska.

    BBC: Shell suspends Arctic drilling for 2013

  • The island nation of Cuba is scrambling to secure access to what it believe to be about 5 billion barrels of oil lying deep under the ocean off its northern coast.

    FORBES: Cuba Chases 5 Billion Barrels of Undiscovered Oil; U.S. Groups Respond

  • They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.

    ECONOMIST: A netful of trouble for Japanese fishermen

  • This provides the vine with plenty of drainage, which is an important factor in a wet, northern climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean.

    WSJ: Reflections on Champagne

  • This would link offshore wind farms in the Atlantic ocean and the Irish, North and Baltic seas with customers throughout northern Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Power transmission

  • Officials from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Northern Command said the payload cleared Japanese airspace, but later fell into the Pacific Ocean.

    CNN: Mystery over fate of N. Korean rocket

  • Two severe coral bleaching events in 1998 and 2002 due to ocean warming also had "major detrimental impacts" on the central and northern parts of the reef, the study found, putting the impact at 10%.

    BBC: Half of Great Barrier Reef coral lost in last 27 years

  • Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.

    NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude

  • It marks what some people consider the northern border of the Great Basin and sits upon the farthest shore of what author Stephen Trimble calls the Sagebrush Ocean.

    FORBES: A Desert Where?

  • For a number of reasons, computer models with added atmospheric carbon dioxide preferentially warm the mid-and high-latitude land areas of the northern hemisphere that are ice-free, which also enhances summer melting of the relatively shallow ice in the Arctic Ocean.

    FORBES: Is Global Warming A Bipolar Disorder?

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