A recent discovery has revealed a gigantic underground ocean, three times larger than all of Earth's surface oceans combined, ...

Similarly, heat and carbon dioxide contained in deep-ocean currents are sequestered from the atmosphere until the water rises back the surface, many years later. Similar flows in the North ...

New research challenges current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon. A new MIT study challenges previous ...

Ocean currents are driven by surface winds ... These regions are the primary source of mixing between warmer surface waters and colder deep waters, which ordinarily remain separate.

A new study has revealed that changes in the ocean floor impacts currents, giving new insight into the deep-sea pathways of nutrients and pollutants. The study, published in Nature Geoscience by ...

The boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, where the air and sea interact, is known as the sea surface microlayer.

UD professor and students head out on the Hugh R. Sharp Research Vessel to study the boundary between the ocean and the air ...

In total, ocean currents transfer about 25 per cent ... sinks near Antarctica or Greenland to return to the surface after filling the deep ocean waters around the whole globe.

Did deep sea mining start with CIA plot? An array of instruments was positioned nearby to measure how far these clouds were carried on the currents ... them up to the surface.

Coordinated teams of self-driving vehicles, both above and below the water, will scan and map vast areas of unexplored seabed. Japanese researchers are working toward mapping the country’s vast ...

A new study titled "A deep-sea isopod that consumes Sargassum sinking from the ocean's surface," published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, sheds light on a ...