An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

A mysterious patch of water in the North Atlantic has baffled scientists for decades. Located to the southeast of Greenland, this blob of seawater was colder between 1901 and 2021 than during the late ...

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Rip currents are dangerous and potentially life-threatening for beachgoers — and can be more dangerous than sharks. “Rip currents can be killers,” a webpage on rip currents provided by ...

Hurricane Erin reduced its fury late Monday and returned to Category 3 potency, but was still expected to bring potentially deadly waves and rip currents to the East Coast midweek. Erin was 780 miles ...

Beneath the surface of the world's oceans, powerful currents act like invisible highways for marine life. These massive water ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Quahog clams can live for more than 500 years and the layers of their shells can give and unbroken “annual record of ocean conditions,” according to a news release from the University of Exeter.