The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of years, this intricate network of currents has maintained Earth's weather ...

Two recent events involving coastal currents raise the question of which way the nearshore waters flow along the Central ...

The ocean’s calendar is being rewritten, and human activity is holding the pen. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth's history, researchers ...

A bird surrounded by debris from the ocean on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Credit: Matthew Chauvin Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, ...

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 years. This acceleration is primarily driven by intensified atmospheric ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — If you remember the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal in 2004, weather patterns became so out of whack that New York City got flooded by a huge tsunami and ...

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 – ...

Scientists in Japan discovered microscopic fossils revealing that the North Pacific Ocean was once more interconnected. The ...

NASA satellites captured a striking bright blue plume in the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa. The unusual colour revealed ...