A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Abstract: This paper investigates the trajectory of a deep-sea submersible under the influence of ocean currents after it loses power, and makes a probabilistic assessment based on its possible ...

Several Wilmington area fishing piers, restaurants and docks livestream from cameras that allow you to view live conditions.

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

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.

Across the world’s continental shelves, archaeologists are racing a rising tide of development and climate change to map and protect drowned landscapes that once held thriving communities. What was ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...

Research Spotlights What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair ...