Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth's strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater ...

The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers reported March 3 ...

A mesmerizing new visualization of ocean currents from NASA has been compared to the Starry Night painting of Van Gogh.

The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

A sequel to the popular first version from 2011, the new visualization now shows currents not just at the water's surface.

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually get upwelled back to the surface. This process affects ...