Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

A study has found that salinity levels in parts of the southern Indian Ocean have declined by nearly 30% over the past 60 years.

A surface action group from the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet recently departed Vladivostok for an Asia-Pacific deployment.

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

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.

One of the ocean's saltiest regions has become 30 per cent less salty - sparking fears the Gulf Stream could be inching ...

Discover how rising temperatures and altered global wind patterns are causing more freshwater to move through the Southern ...

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 ...

The planet won’t look like this forever. A future supercontinent could unleash brutal cold, rising heat, and even a wave of ...