A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre ... like it in any other ocean,’ says marine ...

Kamilo Point Beach, the one I walked on, catches plastic from the North Pacific gyre, the trashiest of five swirling current systems that transport garbage around the ocean basins and concentrate ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep water in the Subtropical North Atlantic. The results suggest that warmer, ...

The AMOC moves warm, salty surface-ocean water from the subtropics northward to higher latitudes above 40°N in the subpolar North Atlantic, where heat loss to the atmosphere allows it to cool ...

Findings reveal long-term cooling and freshening of the deep subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, with hints of major shifts to come over the next decade A new study analyzed nearly four decades of ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Hurricane experts release 2025 Atlantic tropical season forecasts, North Carolina's tropical outlook Hurricane season begins June 1 and experts are releasing the first outlooks for tropical ...

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste. A paper describing the research was published in the ...

According to the document, plastics numbers in the report were calculated from two sources: "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean," a peer-reviewed study by Jenna Jambeck published in ...