Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research
In recent decades, these climate patterns have been persisting longer and recurring more often. A striking example is the ...
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Researchers Finally Found the Huge ‘Missing’ Blob of Water in the Atlantic Ocean
Far from how it appears on the surface, ocean water is not the same everywhere ... a formerly unnoticed water mass in the ...
Ocean mixing intensifies central Pacific ENSO via diabatic heating, study reveals
The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most influential interannual climate phenomena in the global ...
Forecasting the future of Southern Ocean ecosystems
Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...
A Dark Ocean Pit Has Been Tracking Storms for Millennia. The Weather Is Only Getting Worse.
Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone ...
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Ocean eddies -- the food trucks of the sea
How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...
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Tracking Some of the World’s Fiercest Ocean Currents
During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...
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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...