If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation were to collapse, it would have profound implications for global climate ...

A new study has used 30 years of data to find areas with the highest potential for generating energy from ocean currents ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter ...

Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately ... and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic. ECCO offers researchers ...

Scientists recently tracked a large shark on a never-before-seen journey across the entire Atlantic Ocean, raising new questions about changing ocean conditions, migration patterns, and what this ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

A disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida has a small chance of developing into a cyclone, according to the National Hurricane Center.

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound ... It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands took part in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami preparedness exercise Thursday, engaging residents and ...