The Pacific Ocean hosts a complex network of currents that redistribute heat, nutrients and biogeochemical tracers on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Prominent features include the North ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

A monster El Niño is forming, potentially rivalling the 1877 event that killed 50 million. Discover how the 2026 forecast ...

GOES-East satellite observations and machine learning have, for the first time, connected this observed structure to the much more difficult problem of observing ocean currents. Credit: Luc ...

Waters in the northern Pacific Ocean naturally cycle between patterns of cool and warm temperatures every few decades. But hundreds of simulations from climate models suggest human-caused warming may ...

For years, climate experts have been sounding the alarm about the worsening impacts of global warming, and a report made by a European news wire agency over the weekend heightened the concerns in an ...

The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid and stormy summer.

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