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Understanding these northerly ocean currents could help scientists predict if—or when—warming temperatures could cause a world-altering change.

Why is an ocean current critical to world weather losing steam? Scientists search the Arctic for answers. A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

Water currents and gyres. The ocean doesn't sit still like water in a sink. It moves more like a conveyer belt that's driven by changes in temperature and salinity over large areas. Both quick ...

Ocean currents transport heat throughout the globe, but as climate change melts sea ice and causes more rain to fall, a major current circulating through the Atlantic Ocean, AMOC, may be slowing down.

The venomous snake can drift on ocean currents for thousands of miles—possibly clocking distances of 20,000 miles (32,190 kilometers) and more over 10 years, computer simulations show.

In the open ocean in the dead of night, a light-studded downline silently sinks a hundred feet into the water’s inky depths. The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and ...

But the Worldwide Fund for Nature estimates that 10% of ocean plastic is actually lost or abandoned fishing gear, and that between 500,000 to 1 million tons of this “ghost gear” enters the ...

Actor Alex Fitzalan and National Geographic Explorer Asha de Vos are in Wellington, New Zealand to see how ghost nets are being rescued from the ocean and ... They drift on ocean currents, ...