The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm water north and circulating much-needed nutrients to aquatic life. However, scientists have ...

As the intensity and frequency of the strongest cyclones east of Taiwan have increased, so has the strength of the Kuroshio current, a Pacific current responsible for redistributing heat throughout ...

Forty million people living in the Kanto region of Japan, which includes Tokyo, may be able to blame a meandering ocean current for increasing hot and humid summers, according to an analysis conducted ...

(CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets. Amid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm ...