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

As global electricity demand grows, traditional energy sources are under strain. Oceans, which cover more than 70% of Earth's ...

One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now ...

Summers in Japan are typically hot and rainy. Unlike much of the US, where warmer temperatures generally lead to less rain, ...

The United States leads in AI, but staying ahead requires scaling compute, energy, and capital. This commentary previews new ...

We celebrate International Women’s Day by featuring another series of famous female geologists both past and present.

The Kuroshio Current flows on the western side of the Pacific Ocean, past the east coast of Japan, east across the Pacific ... the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they ...

Melting Antarctic ice is weakening the world’s strongest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, according to research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters on Monday.

Melting ice sheets are slowing the world’s strongest ocean current, researchers said yesterday. An influx of freshwater from the melting sheets is changing the properties of the ocean and its ...