A handful of videos on YouTube and TikTok have been racking up likes by showing a strange line in the ocean, with dark water on one side and light water on the other. Lines like this often appear ...

In this September 2018 photo provided by researcher Isabela Le Bras, mooring for measuring equipment is recovered just offshore of Greenland in the early morning with icebergs visible in the ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling ...

Fluid mixing processes in the oceans play a major part in governing the world’s heat and carbon balances as well as providing a food delivery service to a variety of organisms. The wind and tides play ...

Crashing waves aren’t the only tumultuous parts of the sea. Far beneath any ocean’s surface, immensely heavy layers of water are constantly turning over, like the icy contents of 7-Eleven Slurpee ...

Each night, all over the ocean, swarms of animals wriggle and kick their way from deep below the waves to feed at the surface. Each creature is tiny — less than a centimeter long, and sometimes much ...

Water rolls up onto a North Carolina beach as Hurricane Florence approaches in this 2018 photo. Climate change is making it harder for surface water to mix with cooler water from the ocean floor, ...

Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence of the so-called Gulf Stream “blender effect,” where the waters mix on either side of the current. The University of Maryland led the research, ...

A single Pacific krill doesn’t grow as big as its cocktail-shrimp cousins. Yet a swarm of krill making its daily commute in a Canadian inlet boosted water turbulence by factors ranging from 2,000 to ...

The consequences are not quite yet understood, but eventually it could change forecasts of one of the worst-case global warming scenarios - still considered unlikely this century - in which the mixing ...

WASHINGTON -- One of the key drivers of the world's climate is an area in the North Atlantic Ocean where warmer and colder water mix and swirl. When scientists went for their first close look at this ...