Previously, such blobs of equatorial water were only discovered in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, but not the ...

The water depth at the mid-Atlantic ridge is about 3,000 metres ... “We are looking for turbulence caused by breaking internal waves (which are waves that travel on the ocean thermocline, rather than ...

The 3-D grid was selected to represent the thermal stratification and to capture for the natural thermocline ... As stated earlier, the water depth at each grid point was made using the global ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

"The melting ice sheets dump vast quantities of fresh water into the salty ocean. This sudden change in ocean 'salinity' has a series of consequences - including the weakening of the sinking of ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...