A Beach Hazard Statement is in effect for much of coastal Southern California amid a busy Independence Day weekend, where hundreds of people were rescued in Newport Beach on Friday. Weather officials ...

An endangered sea turtle named Lucky washed up in Nova Scotia last year. Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of why ...

The way that heat is transferred from the deep ocean to shallower waters and back also affects how Arctic and Antarctic ice ...

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The ocean has been heating up over the past century, largely due to human activity that produces heat-trapping greenhouse gases. But strangely, a patch of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland and ...

While the world’s oceans have generally been heating up, one patch of the Atlantic located south of Greenland has been dropping in temperature. Dubbed the “cold blob,” the region’s cooling is likely ...

Scientists have linked an unusual "cold blob" in the North Atlantic — one eerily similar to the one featured in the film "The Day After Tomorrow," that has a major impact on global weather. "The ...

Ocean currents are not just horizontal motions that flow from side to side. There are also vertical currents that act like deep-sea elevators, pushing heat and carbon down into the deep, while ...

This week’s forecast includes rip currents and high surf off the Los Angeles County coast. The National Weather Service has issued a Beach Hazards Statement for all county beaches, the Malibu Coast, ...

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research. By Eric Niiler The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 ...

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that a major Atlantic Ocean current system tied to global climate is weakening. The slowdown has been detected across a vast region of the North Atlantic over ...