Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

Abstract: Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) along-track interferometry (ATI) serves as a primary approach to measure the total surface current vector (TSCV) of the ocean. However, ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...

Research Spotlights What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair ...

A shift in balance at the frozen edges of Antarctica could disrupt the balance in all of the world's oceans — affecting weather patterns and even global food security. Researchers from the University ...

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and in 2026, there are big concerns about climate change driving more extreme weather and health impacts for those of us who live here. This week, an arctic ...