Scientists found evidence that a profound change in the Antarctic Ocean followed the weakening of the Atlantic.

Weather forecasting has always involved uncertainty, but the patterns emerging in 2025 and 2026 have pushed that uncertainty ...

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A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 years. This acceleration is primarily driven by intensified atmospheric ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics to the United States, contributing to declines in ...

The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean. That’s where a freight train of record-warm water is chugging along. This train, called a Kelvin wave, is ...

Far from the shipping corridors and crowded industrial coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere, the South Atlantic Ocean ...

The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published February 3 in Nature ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...