Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

Santa Cruz County Supervisor Justin Cummings is organizing California coastal communities in response to the prospect of offshore oil drilling and potential seabed mining — as his predecessor Gary ...

New research reveals how ocean warming triggered the large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS)—offering vital clues for understanding its modern-day vulnerability. NEGIS is the ...

A new study has concluded that the collapse of a "prominent and powerful" ocean current would have serious impacts on Europe. This marks the first time researchers have tested multiple climate ...

Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...

Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk Scientists warn current collapse could trigger modern-day ice age for Northern Europe Researchers working to understand how, ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...