Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild conditions.

The first thing to keep in mind is that ocean currents are very thin compared to the diameter of Earth. They’re only about four kilometers (13,000 feet) deep at most, and surface currents can be just ...

Map of sea currents by Rainer Lesniewski via Shutterstock.com According to Tel Aviv University’s Professor Colin Price , “It may have a small effect on global temperatures, but it may have a dramatic ...

As the current slows down, this effect weakens and more water can pile up at the US East Coast, leading to an enhanced sea-level rise,” said Levke Caesar, one of the authors of the report.

Sea level rise will make these results more common in the years to come even without ocean currents pushing water inland. The sea level trend in Mayport has increased 10 inches in the last 100 ...

A massive deep-sea ravine in the Pacific Ocean has been mapped out in greater detail than any other part of the world's seafloor. The new maps of the "deep-sea Grand Canyon" have a "centimeter ...

It began with a storm in the Pacific, and a freighter traveling from China to America. Rolling seas resulted in shipping ...

Marine creatures that drift through the ocean are riding currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A surprising number of delicate invertebrates, called neustons, are making it home, according ...

The world's largest deep-sea coral reef, which spans an area roughly the size of Vermont, has been uncovered "right on the doorstep" of the southeast U.S. coastline, new seafloor maps reveal.