Far below the ocean’s surface, a hidden circulation system quietly shapes life on Earth. Dense “deep ocean water” formed in ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth's history, researchers ...

The Hadley Circulation (HC) plays a crucial role in distributing heat and moisture around the planet. Over recent decades, surface warming has caused the HC to expand poleward, expanding subtropical ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79 N Glacier -- the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from ...

Scientists in Japan discovered microscopic fossils revealing that the North Pacific Ocean was once more interconnected. The ...