Confronted by the sun, land cooks quickly compared to the oceans, which can absorb great amounts of heat. Earth's average temperature is slightly higher in July because the sun is shining on all ...

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

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

But water doesn't move around just in the oceans. It also moves around through the air. The sun heats up the water in the oceans, rivers, lakes and seas, turning it into tiny droplets called water ...

Accelerating rates of heat uptake by oceans that don't fit current climate models can now be explained by quantum physics, according to an Australian scientist. In a recent paper published in the ...

The tropical oceans drive our planet's weather. Sun heats the sea, creating rain, winds and huge storms that drive up towards higher latitudes. Here, unlike the tropics, the seas change with the ...

Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to ...

On the ocean, with nothing to stop them and much ... Wind is moving air and the reason air moves is because the Sun heats up everything on one side of the planet (the day side) including the ...