A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low ...

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A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Seabirds are like feathered buoys. Gently rafting on the ocean’s surface, these birds go with the flow, making them excellent proxies for tracking changes in a current’s speed and direction.

As Antarctic ice melts, all of that fresh water pours into the ocean, essentially diluting it by reducing its salinity. That, in turn, is dramatically slowing the currents that, like a conveyor belt, ...

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Oceans all over the world rely on a delicate balance of different elements to remain stable. Temperature, salinity, pH, and pressure all combine to create the complex bodies of water that maintain ...

Due to global warming, a deep ocean current around Antarctica that has been relatively stable for thousands of years could head for "collapse" over the next few decades. Such a sudden shift could ...

A Gentoo penguin feeds its chick in Cuverville Island, in the western Antarctic peninsula, in 2016. Experts say climate change and altered ocean currents may be threatening the environment of such ...

On top of the world, where the North American and European continents meet, the planet's largest waterfall swirls and tumbles over a dramatic tectonic rift. The Denmark Strait cataract is the greatest ...