The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of ...

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery ...

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 ...

The research is another sign that climate heating caused mainly by fossil fuel pollution is pushing the climate toward ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

LONDON (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Parts of the world could face a deep freeze if a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents collapses, according to a new study. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and ...