Like currents, trade winds have always been important to mariners. Those blowing heads on yellowed old maps were not mere decoration. In the Indian Ocean, for example, Indian traders over the ages ...

The map below shows the pattern of currents ... Kuroshio Current in the north-west Pacific Agulhas Current in the south-west Indian Ocean In the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the currents make ...

We used this rich data to uncover the role of eddy currents. Ocean eddies are huge loops of swirling current, sometimes hundreds of kilometres across and reaching down over 1,000 metres.

Possible source of floating debris based on ocean currents map - investigation report screenshot March 15 ... Authorities ...

Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated ...

However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected ... Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing ...

UK ownership and a US military base have kept the vast Indian Ocean archipelago, and its waves, off-limits for 60 years. Now ...

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 ...

An intense X2.3-class flare was released by the sun yesterday, followed by several M-class flares, which caused a series of radio blackouts around the world.

Circular ocean currents, called “eddies,” play an important role in supplying nutrients for marine life and can stimulate ...

The search for the ill-fated Malaysian Airline flight, MH 370, is all set to restart following a "credible proposal" presented by a United States (US)-based ocean exploration firm that identifies a ...

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 ...