NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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