Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been a favorite in the search for life beyond Earth, and fresh data from NASA’s Juno ...

A new review published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sheds light on one of climate science’s enduring puzzles: how the patterns of tropical ocean warming influence the behavior of tropical ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...

A new study found that the ocean experiences the most intense marine heat waves at a depth of between 50 and 250 meters (160 and 820 feet), where a large portion of the ocean’s biodiversity can be ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

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Following a wet El Niño, experts are forecasting a new climate pattern will arrive in the Pacific Ocean. In early February, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center announced that El ...

The paper found that the water in the Southern Ocean has unexpectedly been getting saltier over the last 10 years, a reversal of a trend measured since roughly the 1970s. Its main author told Snopes ...

For years, climate experts have been sounding the alarm about the worsening impacts of global warming, and a report made by a European news wire agency over the weekend heightened the concerns in an ...