New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realized, with the ...

A new study led by the University of Barcelona reveals that freshwater exported from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea ...

Researchers have collected the first multi-year record of ocean conditions hidden beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new joint study from the University of Gothenburg and the German Alfred ...

The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

A new study has investigated how future changes in weather patterns could affect the tropical Pacific Ocean and its ecosystems. The research, based on complex computer models, has shown that these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea surface temperature change from 1880 to 2023. Nearly every ocean has warmed (yellow to red), with one stark exception: the ...

When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth’s past caused the exchange of waters ...

At the end of the last Ice Age 13 to 11.5 thousand years ago, the North Atlantic Deep Water circulation system that drives the Gulf Stream may have shut down because of melting glaciers that added ...