Microplastics may be disrupting phytoplankton and weakening the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon, according to a new study.

California sea otters maintain a warm body temperature in cold waters, which increases their energy demands to about three ...

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A quiet reef can suddenly come alive with moving shadows. One by one, sharks start to appear along the edge of South ...

A major Atlantic Ocean current system that helps regulate Earth’s climate has been slowing for nearly two decades across a wide stretch of ocean, according to new research—potentially reshaping ...

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 ...

On the Thursday, April 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: A large-scale and delicate system of ocean currents that has been active for millions of years and that’s responsible for our warm ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By tracking how temperature patterns shift over time, it can reveal fast-moving, ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current possesses more than 100 times the flow of all the world’s rivers combined. According to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...