Scientists may have to rethink the relationship between the ocean's circulation and its long-term capacity to store carbon, new research suggests. As the ocean gets weaker, it could release more ...

Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense ...

If the Atlantic circulation system weakened, it could lead to a world of climate chaos. Ice sheets are made of fresh water, so the rapid release of icebergs into the Atlantic Ocean can lower the ocean ...

New research shows, for the first time, an unprecedented and significant warming of equatorial Atlantic upper intermediate ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean ...

A new study has investigated how future changes in weather patterns could affect the tropical Pacific Ocean and its ecosystems. The research, based on complex computer models, has shown that these ...

Far from the shipping corridors and crowded industrial coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere, the South Atlantic Ocean ...

At the end of the last Ice Age 13 to 11.5 thousand years ago, the North Atlantic Deep Water circulation system that drives the Gulf Stream may have shut down because of melting glaciers that added ...

When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth’s past caused the exchange of waters ...

Most of what we know about the ocean, we know from above it. The surface: its color on a clear day, the way storms churn it ...