In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a ...

Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That’s because researchers have developed ...

Earlier this month, tragedy struck an idyllic and popular tourist destination on Tenerife of the Canary Islands. A rogue wave ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Rogue waves have ...

A Chinese woman is lucky to be alive after a rogue wave encounter in Egypt. Video footage of the incident, shared on social media, shows the woman posing for a photoshoot at a popular rock formation ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves. It's ...

Rogue waves, which are any waves considered to be at least two times the height of the tallest waves around them, can be terrifying to those working at sea. Long reported only anecdotally by sailors, ...