A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out at it? It turns ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

In recent years, scientists have raised alarms about the potential collapse of key ocean currents in the Atlantic, with ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

Marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and longer-lasting as humanity continues to release planet-warming gases into our ...

Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...