A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion.

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though ...

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During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

The line where ocean meets air has always looked fragile, a knife-edge boundary stretched over crushing depths and shifting ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Redwing is autonomous underwater glider expected to circle the world in a little over four years, then return to Cape Cod.

Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...