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

The Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is home to some of the most turbulent waters in the ocean.

the Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services, and the University of Zagreb, has found an example of an exception to Ekman's theory of wind-driven ocean currents—wind and surface ...

The Agulhas Current flows south along the western side of the Indian Ocean. When it reaches the southern tip of Africa, it sheds swirling vortices of water called Agulhas Rings. Sometimes ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound ... It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's ...

This intensifies two important ocean currents. The first is the Indonesian Throughflow – which carries warm Pacific waters through the Indonesian seas and into the eastern Indian Ocean.

The monsoon rains have long remained the lifeblood of India, providing the lion's share of the water used for drinking and ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic ... across the globe and so have some of the creatures in it. When ocean currents flow around the planet, they move warm and cold water with ...