In the investigation of this subject it is very important that we should understand well all the forces ... so also in ocean currents, the modifying force arising from the earth's rotation has ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating melt of Antarctica’s ice sheet. According to a new study published in ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

It also plays a big part in regulating the Earth's climate. Unlike better known ocean currents – such as the Gulf Stream along the United States' east coast, the Kuroshio Current near Japan ...

The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that ...

Scientists have warned that Earth's strongest ocean current is slowing down due to climate ... The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds around 90 per cent of all the fresh water on Earth and has the ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

The saltier water left behind sinks and then flows south all the way toward the Antarctic before rising and warming in other ocean basins. Currents also move nutrients and salt throughout Earth's ...

For centuries, Earth’s oceans have always been blue. However, research states that oceans will turn green again soon. By again, I mean, once upon a time the oceans used to be green; now, they are blue ...

Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and hold enormous potential to generate clean electricity through ocean currents. Unlike wind or solar energy, ocean currents flow steadily and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...