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

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

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world ...

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

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Open-cell clouds often form wispy honeycomb-like lattices, but for some reason, this cell appears to be all on its own ... according to the Earth Observatory. The ocean surface to the east ...

Oceans, which cover more than 70% of Earth's surface, offer vast potential for clean energy from renewable resources such as ocean currents and waves. However, marine renewable energy development ...

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 Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

Instead, it was a subtle but powerful reminder of the complex physics playing out in Earth ... of the ocean—possibly warmed more than its surroundings—triggered rising air currents.