Changes in this global ocean current pattern are ringing alarm bells, and climate change is likely to blame.

Most people picture weather as something that happens in the sky. Storms form, fronts collide, jet streams wobble, and rain falls. But a huge share of what plays out overhead actually starts ...

Some of the ocean's tiniest organisms get swept into underwater currents that act as a conduit that shuttles them from the sunny surface to deeper, darker depths where they play a huge role in ...

An ambitious research programme in northwestern pacific is striving to understand the many facets of the ocean — and the ways ...

The ocean has been heating up over the past century, largely due to human activity that produces heat-trapping greenhouse gases. But strangely, a patch of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland and ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth's history, researchers ...

A crucial system of ocean currents may already be on course to collapse, according to a new report, with alarming implications for sea level rise and global weather — leading temperatures to plunge ...

A team of NASA and university scientists has developed a new way to use satellite measurements to track changes in Atlantic Ocean currents, which are a driving force in global climate. The finding ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful ocean current on Earth. As it flows around ...