Despite the sea appearing to be a calm and uneventful natural feature, the depths of the ocean were not an alien ecosystem. A recent study indicates the connection between nature and the processes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Luc Lenain/Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scientists are turning to artificial intelligence to unearth new ...

The world’s ocean currents are changing, particularly along Australia’s eastern seaboard and around Antarctica, creating more powerful eddies that could have far-reaching effects on what happens to ...

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 ...

GOES-East satellite observations and machine learning have, for the first time, connected this observed structure to the much more difficult problem of observing ocean currents. Credit: Luc ...

Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the ocean’s salt levels, potentially disrupting the vital Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with profound global consequences. Flowing clockwise around ...

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 ...