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

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Melting ice could weaken Earth's strongest ocean current 20% by 2050, study reveals.

A new scientific atlas has just redrawn the map of Antarctica’s seafloor—and what it reveals could alter how researchers model sea-level rise, ocean circulation, and the continent’s past. The study, ...

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

A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

The Oceanography Society (TOS) has awarded the Ocean Observing Team Award to the Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

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 ...