Large-scale wind patterns around the globe drag ocean surface waters with them, creating complex currents, including some that flow toward the western sides of the ocean basins. The currents hug ...

As global electricity use grows, the strain on traditional energy sources increases. Renewable options like wind and solar ...

Can we stop it weakening by 2050? 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 ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Scientists have issued a warning that the world's strongest ocean current is slowing down due ... and it is likely to get hotter, with flow-on impacts on Antarctic ice melting," climate scientist ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

Scientists are increasingly worried about a potential slowdown of the major Atlantic ocean current. Now we know it would ...