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

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

By storing or releasing freshwater, the Beaufort Gyre influences the oceanic properties both within the Arctic and as far ...

The Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean holds today large amounts of fresh water. If the gyre weakens due to climate change, it will release freshwater that could flood the North Atlantic and have an ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

Ocean currents are movements of water horizontally ... They flow in circular loops or gyres. Gyres are spiral oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model ... supergyre links the southern portions of other, smaller current loops (gyres) that circulate in the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ...

In one of the planet's five great oceanic gyres, human made marine debris becomes trapped in a circular ocean current that stretches from the east coasts of North America to the west coasts of ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...