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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...

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

"The ocean is extremely complex and finely balanced ... The strength of the current -- which flows clockwise around Antarctica -- also acts as a barrier that stops invasive species washing ...

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 ...