A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this week. The National ...

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by NASA is working to change that ...

Swirling vortexes of the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from ...

A new University of Miami study looked at 40 years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep ...

A new map of the seafloor of the ... is affecting the paths of major ocean currents and the way the ocean water mixes, which affects how it transports heat and then influences temperatures around ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Heat stress has impacted 84% of the world’s coral reefs as surging ocean temperatures continue to fuel the most severe global ...

with each of the last eight years setting new highs for ocean heat content. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the planet’s most powerful ocean circulation system, could slow by 20 percent by ...

Saltiness and temperature are the drivers of ocean currents that move heat and nutrients around the world. Melting sea ice and rising temperatures can disrupt these currents, not only affecting ...