As global electricity demand grows, traditional energy sources are under strain. Oceans, which cover more than 70% of Earth's ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...

Toru Miyama, chief researcher of ocean physics at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), cited the abnormal flow of the Kuroshio Current as the cause. The Kuroshio ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3 ... 2025 — A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ...

Global warming is having an impact on Atlantic Ocean currents that could lead to significant shifts in weather patterns in ...

A mesmerizing new visualization of ocean currents from NASA has been compared to the Starry Night painting of Van Gogh.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

natural climate fluctuations which start in the Pacific Ocean and have huge impacts on global weather patterns. Agencies in other countries also monitor these patterns, including Peru and Japan ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating ...