In research published today in Nature, we show almost half of the heat waves and cold snaps reaching the ocean's twilight zone—between 200 and 1,000 meters—are driven by large eddy currents ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

Warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, new research shows. New techniques have been used to differentiate, for the first time, between the two known causes ...

This deep ocean current has remained in a relatively stable state for ... which transports warm, salty water from the tropics northward at the ocean surface and cold water southward at the ...

Ocean current expected to warm - and could drive up sea level rise, study finds WLRN Public Media | By Jenny Staletovich Published April 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM EDT ...

Warmer temperatures near the surface are thinning the top layer of the ocean, which generates the most life. “The warm water is floating on cold water so this is going to increase the contrast ...

Currents begin near the North Pole in the North Atlantic where the surface of the ocean gets cooled by the arctic temperatures. As sea ice forms, salt stays behind and the water there becomes saltier.

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, ... The opposite is true for cyclonic eddies shed from western-­boundary ...

A strengthening cold current Karnauskas used different data, when at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a decade ago, to show how cold ocean currents might protect certain islands or coastlines from ...