Baby loggerhead turtles do an adorable "dance" when they sense food. This could help scientists uncover how they navigate the ...

"We gain a clearer understanding of how these dynamics have varied over millennia and what this means for our current climate trajectory." Scientists sound alarm over disturbing discovery about ...

A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project’s aim to map global seafloor by 2030 By 2030, a collaborative project aims to have entirely ...

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

As tides push ocean water around the globe, its interaction with the planet's magnetic field generates a weak electric current ... changes across the world's oceans from such measurements.

The world's biggest iceberg is on the loose and ... "However, its recent path shows that it is in an ocean current jet – something like an atmospheric jet stream – that should take it toward ...

Users will see both names on Google Maps in the rest of the world. Google Maps applies name changes when they have been updated in official government sources. AP “We have a long-standing ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

A University of Washington study looked at how a major current in the Atlantic Ocean that includes the Gulf Stream will respond to a doubling of carbon dioxide from preindustrial levels.

The study helps explain why 2023 and early 2024 saw unprecedented ocean temperatures. The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown.

In April 2024, as the oceans started simmering, 77 percent of the world’s coral reefs became imperiled in the most extensive bleaching event on record, threatening the livelihoods of a billion ...

Professor Chris Merchant, the lead author of the research, has reiterated calls for the world’s nations and industries to slash their emissions drastically in the coming years. “If the oceans were a ...