A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

Research Reveals ‘Warm Water’ Flowing Toward One of Antarctica’s Biggest Ice Shelves Could Dramatically Raise Sea Levels ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth's history, researchers ...

Rip currents are powerful channels of water that flow away from shore, often causing life-threatening conditions for swimmers ...

The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico. The current flows northward into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops ...

So horizontal ocean currents are driven by density gradients – flowing from low density to high density. Currents do not flow directly in the direction of the density gradient. They flow in ...

When ocean currents flow around the planet, they move warm and cold water with them, changing the climate and weather as they go. For example, Britain would actually be much colder if it wasn’t ...

Crucially, the clam data came from a spot on the border between the AMOC and Arctic waters, where ocean conditions are heavily dependent on the strength of currents flowing from the south.

A study using data from ESA's Swarm mission suggests that faint magnetic signatures created by Earth's tides can help us ...

This current system helps move vital nutrients throughout the Atlantic Ocean and helps ensure marine life can thrive. However, the risk of climate change could disrupt the cold water flows through the ...

By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...