For a few months this summer, a large strip of Atlantic Ocean along the equator cooled at record speed. Though the cold patch ...

A small area of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand and Australia, can trigger temperature changes that affect the entire Southern Hemisphere, a new study has found. The new climate ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

Oceans hold onto this heat for longer than the land does and ocean ... the equator the Coriolis effect means this is diverted, to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left south of ...