About 20,000 years ago, large ice sheets loomed over North America, and researchers thought the ice, itself, pushed storms south, drenching the Southwest and leaving the Pacific Northwest dry. Now, a ...

Ocean temperature patterns appear to act as a natural brake on the global spread of drought, preventing vast areas of the ...

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean is known for its large low-oxygen zones that are increasing in size, putting marine life at risk. New research shows that 15 million years ago, the opposite was true ...

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A study has shown that marine life around the world is surprisingly dependent on a single ocean circulation pattern in the Southern Hemisphere where nutrient-rich water rises from the deep and spreads ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, an unseen system works without pause. Tiny microbes drift through the water, breaking down ...

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...

In the summer of 2012, a series of punishing heat waves roasted a large portion of the U.S. with record-breaking temperatures that helped spawn one of the most widespread and costliest droughts to hit ...

"The amount of heat going into the ocean continues to increase." Between 2010 and 2020, the ocean absorbed (roughly) the equivalent amount of energy released when detonating a Tsar Bomba — the most ...

As global temperatures rise, our oceans are heating up. Scientists recently found that warmer ocean temperatures are leading to stronger eddy currents — swirling currents that transport warm or cold ...