While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of oceans, a team of researchers from four continents has found plastic waste throughout all ocean layers. A new study ...

While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of oceans, a team of researchers from four continents has found plastic waste throughout all ocean layers. A new study, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of ...

According to Nasa, there are several ways in which heat makes its way into the ocean, resulting in the thermal expansion of water. Normally, seawater arranges itself into layers determined by ...

There are several ways in which heat makes its way into the ocean, resulting in the thermal expansion of water. Normally, seawater arranges itself into layers determined by water temperature and ...

First, it reduces the difference in density between ocean layers. This causes water to draw upwards from shallower depths. Second, it increases water temperatures at depth. All this means the ...

The Arctic Ocean is Earth's northernmost body of water. It encircles the Arctic, and flows beneath it. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the year—although that is starting to ...

To find out, oceanographers are investigating how carbon is eaten, expelled and otherwise influenced as it drifts through what some scientists think of as the ocean’s “digestive system.” ...

Current estimates of the CO₂ from the atmosphere that disappears in the ocean, commonly referred to ... gas concentrations within these tiny layers in a laboratory. In recent years, the impact ...