After sifting through ocean current data dating back three decades, researchers at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have identified ideal locations for generating renewable energy. Florida’s east ...

Ocean currents are driven by surface winds ... Just as Earth's rotation creates the prevailing winds, it creates surface currents within the oceans. Under the influence of the trade winds ...

New research reveals the surprising ways atmospheric winds influence ocean eddies ... are circular currents of water that are ...

Ocean eddies are circular currents of water ... Aligned Spin: When prevailing winds move in the same direction as an eddy’s spin, they enhance its energy. Opposite Spin: When winds move against ...

A change in the natural wind system ... the strength of the prevailing winds. This NAO is different from the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), an ocean current that is weakening ...

The black and white Galapagos Penguins landed on the endangered species list in 2000 after the population plummeted to only a few hundred individuals Most live on the archipelago's westernmost ...