As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK ...

Warm water from the deep Southern Ocean has been steadily creeping closer to Antarctica’s ice shelves over the past four ...

Why do some coral reefs weather marine heat waves better than others? A new study published in Scientific Reports shows that ...

Melting and breaking icebergs in the far-off northeastern Pacific Ocean can weaken a massive current system in the Atlantic ...

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up; it’s been getting colder. A team of scientists say ...

Often called the "cold blob", this swath of water in the North Atlantic has bucked the global warming trend, cooling even as the planet's temperatures rise due to human-induced climate change.

The Earth’s oceans circulate through a complex interplay of wind forcing, buoyancy exchanges and interactions with the seafloor, redistributing heat and regulating global climate. At the surface, ...

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing. Reading time 6 minutes This story was originally ...

On 21 June 2026, the average daily sea surface temperature across the world’s oceans reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, ...

We’re in the middle of a heatwave, so why is the ‘cold blob’ in the North Atlantic causing so much concern? - LET’S UNPACK THAT: A large expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean has been bucking the global ...

Human emissions have pushed the Earth into an energy imbalance, the effects of which are most clearly felt in the ocean. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the ocean has absorbed more than ...