New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would ...

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a ...

The collapse of a critical ocean current system—an event that would upend Earth’s climate and wreak havoc on the Americas, ...

For anyone trying to make sense of the climate right now, the oceans can look like a contradiction in motion. Global records show seas absorbing extraordinary amounts of heat, yet new research also ...

In his report that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Vannevar Bush (1945) argued for the importance of basic research, citing the “flow of new scientific knowledge” and the ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth. Scientists have tracked an unexpected and rapid rise in surface salinity ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Atlantic Ocean seems so far away from the Pacific Ocean and Hawaiʻi. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet at the tip of South America. One can only wonder what ancient ...

The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—the engine that drives our oceans—would probably reduce average air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by around 40 degrees ...

Sustained scientific observations and monitoring are crucial, offering researchers a unique, sustained window into upper ocean currents, water properties, and marine ecology. An initiative between ...

Far below the waves of the Atlantic, scientists are mapping out a hidden world of water that never meets the light of day. From buried freshwater aquifers to deep mantle minerals that behave like ...