Ocean currents are not just horizontal motions that flow from side to side. There are also vertical currents that act like deep-sea elevators, pushing heat and carbon down into the deep, while bringing up vital nutrients and dissolved gases to the surface.
A new U. N. report warns of escalating threats to the world's oceans from human impacts.
The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average.
The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wildernesses On 8 March 2014, at 1. 20am, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 veered off its scheduled r...
Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-01826-9 Weakening of a major ocean-current system is causing temperatures to drop in a patch of the Atlantic Ocean.
At a special Pass the Remote screening presented by Disney, the documentarian explained why preserving our oceans is a topic that should unite humans of all stripes.