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

The Earth’s oceans, vast and mysterious, cover more than 70% of our planet’s surface. They play a critical role in regulating ...

Ocean circulation also serves as the mediator between large-scale ... Analysis suggested that the occurrence, magnitude, timing, and spatial pattern of the blooms were controlled by two factors: ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

Areas near the coast were pummeled by seasonal monsoons, but ocean-circulation patterns kept the isolated and vast interior warm and dry. Even the Poles were ice-free. The Tethys Ocean filled the ...

Freshwater from melting ice sheets can slow the critical ocean circulation that helps regulate the planet’s climate ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

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

Southern Ocean warming may have a greater impact than Arctic warming in some regions, particularly affecting tropical ...