The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These two regions don't mix except in certain special areas, which creates a large ...

Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm ...

With unique monsoon, mesoscale and submesoscale processes, the Indian Ocean offers critical insights and new challenges to ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that marine heatwaves in the Pacific Ocean will fuel a “super” or “Godzilla” El Niño, disrupting fisheries and ecosystems, and intensifying global climate impacts ...

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that a major Atlantic Ocean current system tied to global climate is weakening. The slowdown has been detected across a vast region of the North Atlantic over ...

Scientists found evidence that a profound change in the Antarctic Ocean followed the weakening of the Atlantic.

The man who introduced the concept of 'planetary boundaries' says living within them requires new ways of achieving ...

Vascular disease doesn't always cause heart attacks or strokes. Often, it is a quietly evolving disease that shows some subtle signs that are mostly ignorable. In all cases of vague symptoms are ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...

Surface temperature readings from the equatorial Atlantic tend to run flat. The record there has been stable enough that researchers had little reason to look deeper for surprises. A sediment core ...