The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change. Though climate change is driving sea ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

Since the Industrial Revolution, scientists estimate that the ocean has become around 30% more acidic from the uptake of ...

(AP) - An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation ...

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In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...

The melting of Antarctica's sea ice has had severe consequences for the Southern Ocean already, from the loss of its habitats to the increase of its sea levels to the intensification of its storms and ...