Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

bringing nutrients to the surface and driving the cycle of the ocean current. However, as the climate warms, the ice surrounding Antarctica is melting at an ever-faster rate. Recent research has ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

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

A University of Miami study looked at forty years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian ...

Ocean currents are driven by surface winds, Earth's rotation, and differences in salinity. Trade winds blow warm surface waters in tropical oceans and seas from east to west. Warm water pools ...

The open ocean and the far reaches of outer space have ... changed over the years—from a platform powered by renewables to its current iteration, two vessels that trawl the surface with a U-shaped net ...

However, it wasn't until the last couple of decades that these tools were adapted to surface ocean currents and wind, which bring an additional level of complexity. It's not like the equations of ...