As global electricity use grows, the strain on traditional energy sources increases. Renewable options like wind and solar ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

bringing nutrients to the surface and driving the cycle of the ocean current. However, as the climate warms, the ice surrounding Antarctica is melting at an ever-faster rate. Recent research has ...

Large-scale wind patterns around the globe drag ocean surface waters with them, creating complex currents ... The specific mechanisms that cause the vertical flows are not entirely clear.

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon ...

The Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is home to some of the most turbulent waters in the ocean.

The world’s oceans are changing in ways we can't ignore. New research suggests that Antarctic ice melt is slowing the ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers, as the ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is involved in everything ... filling the deep ocean as it goes. This causes major changes to the density structure of the ocean,” Sohail and co-author ...

bringing nutrients to the surface and driving the cycle of the ocean current. However, as the climate warms, the ice surrounding Antarctica is melting at an ever-faster rate. Recent research has ...