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 ...

A major shift may be brewing in the Pacific Ocean: Forecasters say El Niño could develop later this year. If it does, it can reshape weather patterns across the United States during the second half of ...

It stretches nearly 480 kilometres in width. Scientists estimate that millions of cubic metres of water fall downward every second. Its flow rate is several times greater than that of the largest ...

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.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural pattern of ocean and atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can influence the weather pattern ...

By 2050, offshore wind power capacity in the North Sea is set to increase more than tenfold. Researchers at the Helmholtz ...

Marine resources are a cornerstone of human nutrition, providing high-quality protein, essential fatty acids, and key micronutrients. At the same time, ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

A mega-drought 1,000 years ago drove Polynesians to explore the Pacific and change their historical destiny forever.

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

By Ben Noll The Post For the second time in as many months, a wind burst occurred in a remote part of the western Pacific Ocean during January – and odds are rising that it will ...

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