The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon ...
The Gulf Stream is a vital ocean current that moves warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Scientists have long ...
At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...
Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually get upwelled back to the surface. This process affects ...