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

A 2025 research paper showed that a major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere reversed directions for the first time in recorded history. Rating: False (About this rating?) Context: The paper ...

Among the many reasons why we ought to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and sharply as possible, the weakening of a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low ...

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster that ...

Ocean current and circulation data underlie diverse topics in marine science, and help inform maritime and environmental policy. This Collection of articles focuses on curated datasets related to ...

A bird surrounded by debris from the ocean on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Credit: Matthew Chauvin Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

A new study published by Utrecht University in the Netherlands warns that the “conveyor belt of the ocean” is approaching a tipping point due to climate change that would result in major environmental ...

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

For years, climate experts have been sounding the alarm about the worsening impacts of global warming, and a report made by a European news wire agency over the weekend heightened the concerns in an ...