A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob" has been linked to weakening ocean currents that help regulate global ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first ...

The study confirms that the North Atlantic cold patch is due to a weakening ocean current system, not aerosols or wind ...

The anomaly, located just south of Greenland, is — perhaps counterintuitively — called the North Atlantic Warming Hole, and ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this ...

Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has ...

A European Space Agency-led effort is helping marine scientists identify and characterize the most biologically vulnerable ...

Atlantic Ocean. Size: Second largest ocean, spanning over 41 million square miles. ... The Earth’s oceans began forming over 4 billion years ago, shortly after the planet's formation.