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

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new research showing that whales undertake the longest journeys to transport nutrients of any mammal or large animal on Earth, much like bees ...

New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.

It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that cleaning up air pollution could contribute to a weakening of ...

Researchers have taken a close look at the global ocean's great "conveyor belt," and they don't like what they've found. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, a clockwise current that helps to regulate ...

The potential collapse of a key Atlantic ocean current − due to human-caused climate change − is in the news again. You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a scarier scenario than what's going on now ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of years, this intricate network of currents has maintained Earth's weather ...

Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than ...