While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...

The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities, ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...