The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.

Straits of Florida — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...

STRAITS OF FLORIDA — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...

The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published February 3 in Nature ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — It is just one scenario among many, but by far the most cataclysmic. Sometime over the next 100 years, human-driven warming could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat ...

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) have concluded how and why strong ocean currents modify surface waves. "Our ...

This week, guests—NBA player Kevin Love, Black Futures Lab principal Alicia Garza, Rockefeller Foundation president Dr. Rajiv Shah, and more—discuss lessons learned during the past year, and how those ...

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...

Choppy, cold afternoon seas met our group of 30 or so that boarded a boat to watch marine mammals just before the new year. Thick spray soaked my clothes and my glasses needed windshield wipers – OK, ...

When you see pictures of the Great Lakes around Chicago, Detroit or Cleveland, there's a sheet of ice extending from the shore. For the most part, you don't see the same thing with the Atlantic Ocean ...

Ancient rocks once beneath the ocean hold clues of severe conditions unimaginable on today's planet. Artwork showing the Earth during the Cryogenian period. This geologic period lasted from 850 to 635 ...

Ocean temperatures set a record high in 2025, according to a new study. The authors found that the heat content of the ocean increased by about 23 zettajoules between 2024 and 2025. That’s roughly the ...