A strengthening cold current Karnauskas used different data, when at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a decade ago, to show how cold ocean currents might protect certain islands or coastlines from ...

Tropical Storm Flossie is expected to continue to strengthen in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.

Marine creatures that drift through the ocean are riding currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A surprising number of delicate invertebrates, called neustons, are making it home, according ...

Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades, funneling human-made debris into a region that extends for hundreds of thousands of square miles in the North Pacific ...

In the Pacific, the Kuroshio Current also transports warm, tropical water into the productive temperate oceans of the mid-latitudes. Where the continental shelf nears the poleward-flowing Kuroshio, ...

More research is needed, however. This is because we haven't been measuring the currents in the Indian Ocean as long as we have for other oceans. For example, Pacific Ocean currents have been measured ...

It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe.