The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

A warm — yet no longer record-hot — strip of Atlantic waters could help fuel 17 named tropical cyclones this season, Colorado ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean -- between Antarctica and other continents -- will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ...

A simulation on the origin and evolution of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team led by Nie Ji, Associate Professor of School of Physics, and Hu Yongyun, Dean of ...

The Beaufort Gyre, an important ocean current, is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, scientists ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new study. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

Drone-based data on Greenland’s water vapor is improving climate models and understanding of future ice loss. For the first ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of ...