One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the planet via currents. Think of the ocean as Earth's central heating system, constantly redistributing thermal energy from the ...

More bad news for the ocean current at the center of the fictional (and scientifically inaccurate) "Day After Tomorrow" ...

RASCOE: And while most of us like to sit by the ocean, NPR's Short Wave podcast is diving in, with this story from producer Hannah Chinn on how the ocean and the atmosphere affect each other.

Ocean eddies are churning harder, driving coastal currents and temperature extremes by warming surface waters while cooling ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large-scale and delicate system of ocean currents, responsible ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By ...

Scientists are concerned that the Atlantic Ocean’s system of currents could be on the verge of collapse with potentially ...

Beware the global meltdown. Antarctica is melting from below due to rising heat from the ocean, threatening the ice shelves, ...

GOES-East satellite observations and machine learning have, for the first time, connected this observed structure to the much ...

New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would ...

Off the coast of Western Australia, the Southern Indian Ocean is becoming significantly less salty, and scientists say it’s happening at a rate never seen before. This rapid freshening has raised ...