With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast of Mexico. The team was able to sample ...

Satellite observations have documented a pronounced decline in Antarctic sea ice extent since 2014, with especially sharp losses in recent years. Whether Antarctica's declining sea ice can recover ...

The ocean mixed layer forms the uppermost horizon of the ocean, intimately coupled to atmospheric processes and climate variability. Its depth, structure and properties evolve in response to wind ...

The world's oceans are shifting beneath us in ways that researchers say have no real precedent in the modern record. The Copernicus Ocean State Report 9, authored by a team led by K. von Schuckmann ...

The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models predicting a decline, researchers found that freshening surface waters are ...

Two surfers walk with their boards on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean in Sines, Portugal, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) (CN) — During the summer of 2023, sea surface temperatures in ...

The uppermost layer of the oceans is a very special but as yet little explored part of the planet. Less than a millimetre thick, this surface layer functions like a skin, regulating the exchange of ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...

The ocean, a longtime reservoir for CFC-11, will become a source of the ozone-depleting chemical by middle of next century. The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting ...