Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from ...

For over 150 years, Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of excess heat from greenhouse gases, providing what ...

A new study provides evidence that the ocean may have absorbed as much as 15% (0.3–0.4 Pg C yr-1) more CO2 than previously ...

The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than ...

When Antarctic krill swarm, the semi-transparent shrimp-like crustaceans join together in the millions or trillions, forming dense coral-colored underwater clouds as they swim in sync with one another ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will be the host of an ocean observing and modeling program focused on one of the ocean regions that plays a major role in regulating climate, and ...

Consider your morning cup of coffee. Your kettle’s heating element — or flame on a stove — warms up water that you infuse with beans and pour into a mug. Maybe you get busy and the cup of joe sits ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in Antarctica.