Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding ...

A new study from the University of Manchester and the United Kingdom's National Oceanography Centre has uncovered a hidden transport system for microplastics. Deep-sea "avalanches," or turbidity ...

Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface currents over large areas in greater detail than ever before.

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One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new joint study from the University of Gothenburg and the German Alfred ...

Global shipping, sea currents and habitat factors are driving the spread of Indo-Pacific fish species in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a new study published in the open-access journal NeoBiota.

Climate change may threaten tens of millions more people than had been believed, according to a new study that says earlier research used incorrect information about water levels along the world’s ...

Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out to sea.The storm was ...