A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion.

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

Available free of charge, it is the ideal starting point for anyone keen to understand marine life.

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Redwing is autonomous underwater glider expected to circle the world in a little over four years, then return to Cape Cod.

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that ...

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — La Niña continues in place across the eastern equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and is ...

Four-year record of ocean processes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf suggests water quality varies throughout the year within the cavity.