The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast ...

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

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 ...

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian ...

This change can disrupt major ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, which plays a crucial role in regulating the climate of the North Atlantic. A disrupted Gulf Stream could lead to colder ...

A massive research project will investigate the role of icebergs in driving melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a process that could trigger a catastrophic collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturn ...

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

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the ...

The far-reaching glow of bioluminescence has haunted sailors for centuries across the Indian Ocean. Now scientists believe ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new joint study from the University of Gothenburg and the German Alfred ...

If you think of the ocean as the human body, these currents are the body's circulatory system,” Chomiak said. Suggestions that the AMOC might collapse have drawn intense scrutiny as climate ...