Ocean color satellites provide essential insights into water quality and ecosystem dynamics by estimating chlorophyll, ...

Global warming poses a significant threat to human society. Rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary measures to mitigate global warming. However, substantially ...

Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of ...

Another round of talks was held on Tuesday about the potential for facilities that could bring in a stable and less expensive ...

A new study analyzing chemical traces in the growth rings of clam shells reinforces growing concerns about the stability of a key North Atlantic Ocean current that helps keep the global climate ...

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery ...

Even with net-negative emissions, the Southern Ocean’s long memory can send up a century-long heat pulse that slows recovery.

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and 100 times larger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is by far the world's largest ocean current. But this key system is ...

A student-led research group from Tohoku University has discovered a new species of the venomous Physalia (commonly known as ...