A new study analyzing chemical traces in the growth rings of clam shells reinforces growing concerns about the stability of a key North Atlantic Ocean current that helps keep the global climate ...

The AMOC essentially acts as a very slow conveyor belt circulating warm water north and cool water south. As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has explained, the whole process takes ...

Paul Myers emphasizes the necessity for very high-resolution computer models to effectively understand how ocean currents ...

The western waters of the country's largest island, Viti Levu, saw "the highest positive anomalies" in SSTs, according to the ...

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A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have reported the first-ever failure of the critical upwelling process in the Gulf of Panama in 2025, marking the end of a consistent ...

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...