The world’s strongest ocean current is losing its pace, and scientists are raising alarms. This vital current plays a crucial ...

The ocean's conveyor belts help regulate Earth's climate, and small shifts can ripple far beyond the sea 🌊🌍. This video ...

A new study suggests the Atlantic's mysterious "cold blob" may signal ocean current changes that could affect U.S. weather.

Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface currents over large areas in greater detail than ever before. Called GOFLOW (Geostationary Ocean Flow), the approach applies deep ...

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up; it’s been getting colder. A team of scientists say ...

The shifting patterns of ocean currents shape our climate and weather. Even today, understanding how ocean currents behave is challenging. But researchers have developed an AI tool that can map ...

The Gulf Stream has been slowly drifting north near Cape Hatteras — and scientists say that movement is a hidden warning ...

A drifter is a buoyant surface float tethered to a weighted sea anchor, called a drogue, that hangs about 50 feet (15 meters) below the surface. The anchor lets the float track the water’s motion ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense amounts of water around the globe on a daily basis, underlying a dynamic ...

Oceanic submesoscale currents dominate the vertical exchanges of heat, biological nutrients and carbon between the shallow and the deep ocean and strongly influence the lateral dispersion of ...