In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says ... the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water.

Oceans hold onto this heat for longer than the land does and ocean currents ... oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The map below shows the ...

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 ...

Questioning whalers, he learned of a powerful current originating from the Gulf of Mexico—hence his name for ... on yellowed old maps were not mere decoration. In the Indian Ocean, for example ...

I’m really trying to offer an alternative to that system where you could, as a small company, very easily get access to data right away in sort of a live forecast model,” said the Current Lab founder.

Hurricane Rafael has made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 storm. It is expected to continue into the Gulf of Mexico, ...

This week, we chat with journalist Laura Trethewey, author of The Deepest Map: The High ... or the Antarctic Ocean, and we finally figured out, "Okay, we're going to call it the Southern Ocean." Most ...

A group of scientists warned Monday of the greatly underestimated risk of a collapse of ocean currents in the Atlantic which could have catastrophic consequences for the Nordic countries as the ...

The developing cluster of showers and thunderstorms over the Caribbean now has a name. The National Hurricane Center is ...

The potential storm follows swiftly on from Hurricane Rafael, which hit Cuba last week. Making landfall as a Category 2 ...

causing knock-on effects such as thermal expansion - which leads to a rise in sea level - and changes in ocean currents. The melting of ice both on land and in the sea also affects the ocean, causing ...