Dive into how the ocean's slow currents move heat around the globe 🌊. This hidden conveyor belt helps shape our climate, even when the surface looks calm. Understanding it reminds us why the blue ...

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new research showing that whales undertake the longest journeys to transport nutrients of any mammal or large animal on Earth, much like bees ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. That's how the blockbuster Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow depicted an abrupt shutdown of the Atlantic ...

Researchers have taken a close look at the global ocean's great "conveyor belt," and they don't like what they've found. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, a clockwise current that helps to regulate ...

The South China Sea Throughflow (SCSTF) serves as a critical oceanic conveyor belt for heat and freshwater, mediating water exchanges between the South China Sea (SCS) and the Pacific and Indian ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms our ...

It turns out that volume does matter, particularly when it comes to the amount of cold dense water that forms off of the coast of Greenland and makes its way to the bottom of the sea floor. Surface ...

Straits of Florida — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...