During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

New research reveals how ocean viruses burst algae cells, fueling a subsurface oxygen band through rapid microbial recycling.

Understanding what is happening deep beneath the ocean surface is key to understanding the weather patterns we are ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the ...

In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...

Every calendar year since 2019, ocean temperatures have reached new record highs. 2025 was no exception, according to a new ...

Global ocean heat content increased by approximately 23 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2025, roughly 40 times annual global primary energy consumption. This is not good.

The ocean stored more heat in 2025 than ever recorded, fueling sea level rise, extreme weather, and growing climate impacts ...

Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) is a fundamental parameter in the study of the Earth’s climate system, influencing ocean circulation, air–sea interactions and the global water cycle. Advances in satellite ...

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...