The world's most powerful ocean current could slow by 2050
The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Ocean mixing intensifies central Pacific ENSO via diabatic heating, study reveals
The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most influential interannual climate phenomena in the global ...
New research reveals chemical secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago
The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...
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Where did Earth’s water come from? AAAS Fellow Karen Meech investigates
The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...
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Spinning ocean eddies feed marine life with rich nutrients
Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
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A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future
It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...
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Earth's inner core is rapidly changing and now "rotating backwards"
Earth’s interior can be divided into several ... almost lost in the noise of the churning oceans and atmosphere.” Some prior ...
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11 Cruise Foods You're Better Off Avoiding If You Don't Have Your Sea Legs
If cruises make you queasy, there are definitely some foods you're probably better off avoiding. Here are some of the ones ...
Alarming Discovery: Human Trash Found at Deepest Point of the Mediterranean Sea
The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...
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See it: Hidden ocean world revealed after Chicago-sized iceberg breaks away in Antarctica
When an iceberg named A-84 broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf on Jan. 13, the crew of R/V Falkor (too) of the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) was already nearby and traveled to investigate the ...