The Ocean's Global Heat Distribution System One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the ...

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

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery won’t be quick.

It turns out that volume does matter, particularly when it comes to the amount of cold dense water that forms off of the coast of Greenland and makes its way to the bottom of the sea floor. Surface ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Decades after his initial climate warning, NASA scientist James Hansen now highlights an alarming acceleration in climate ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient ...

(Phys.org)—As earth's climate warms, scientists have tried to understand why the poles are heating up two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. Airborne dust, it turns out, may play a key ...

Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security threat. This ocean current system helps moderate European winters. Its failure ...