Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

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 ...

The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns, a new study indicates. Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows of freshwater from ...

Scientists are closely monitoring the Atlantic Ocean as the AMOC faces growing pressure from climate change, with possible impacts on European weather, rainfall, sea levels and marine life.

A vast Atlantic circulation system carries warm surface water northward and returns colder, denser water at depth. Evidence ...

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 ...

The year is 2060. London shudders through months of Nordic winter freezes. Across northern Europe, oak and beech forests ...

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 ...

A super El Niño, meaning an especially strong El Niño event, is underway, and it could be one of the strongest on record in recent decades. Strong El Niño events tend to bring warmer, wetter winters ...

Ocean circulation is the global conveyor belt that redistributes heat, salt and nutrients, shaping climate patterns and marine ecosystems. At the heart of this system are boundary currents, narrow and ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...