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Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...
Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...
Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...
A new invited commentary by Ke Chen, associate scientist in the Physical Oceanography department at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
Despite widespread human impacts on wildlife diversity worldwide, many fish communities on the seafloor have maintained their ...
Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...
During Lent, shark meat demand spikes in Guatemala. But where does it come from, and what species are we eating? This study ...
Related: Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix? Eventually, Pangaea split apart. In the gap that emerged between the continents, the Atlantic Ocean was born.
The first hurricane in the Pacific doesn’t typically arrive until the last week of June. Three have been named so far this season.
In June 2023, a record-breaking marine heatwave swept across the North Atlantic Ocean, smashing previous temperature records. Soon after, deadly heatwaves broke out across large areas of Europe ...
"It seemed controversial that the equatorial water mass is present in the Pacific and Indian oceans but missing in the Atlantic Ocean because the equatorial circulation and mixing in all three ...
Hurricane season is just weeks away, and the Pacific Ocean is cooling off again. That’s important because it can create conditions more conducive to hurricanes.
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