People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...

Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

Climate models have predicted that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming, but new research shows that it's ...

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

From shore, a pipe releases a mixture of water and magnesium oxide — a powdery white mineral used in everything from ...

Ocean warming threatens marine life and ecosystems, endangering corals, turtles, penguins, clownfish, and whales. Urgent ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.