The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team ...

The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Abstract: As a longstanding scientific challenge, accurate and timely ocean forecasting has always been a sought-after goal for ocean scientists. However, traditional theory-driven numerical ocean ...

Ancient rocks once beneath the ocean hold clues of severe conditions unimaginable on today's planet. Artwork showing the Earth during the Cryogenian period. This geologic period lasted from 850 to 635 ...

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The Red Planet may have once been half blue. A sea the size of Earth’s Arctic Ocean blanketed part of Mars about three billion years ago, researchers suggest in a study published January 7 in the ...

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Long ago, when ice sheets spread across much of the Northern Hemisphere, the Atlantic Ocean existed in a world that looked nothing like today. Massive glaciers covered land. Sea levels were lower.