The Chinese naval drills in the waters between Australia and New Zealand have prompted airlines to divert flights.

Hazardous surf and “life-threatening conditions for beachgoers” prompted water rescues and beach closures Saturday near ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

Millions of Queenslanders are being told to prepare amid warnings of the first cyclone to cross the state’s southern coast in ...

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

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

Currents also move nutrients and salt throughout Earth's ocean basins. Swirling vortexes of the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence ... put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing to drill into the rock ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...

at CAOS, Indian Institute of Science. Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf ...

particularly drifting rafts of southern bull kelp which ride on ocean currents. Dr Sohail says: 'A slowdown in the ACC would allow the creatures that live on those rafts to get onto the continent ...