A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

A zone in the North Atlantic has puzzled scientists for decades. This stretch of water is strangely colder than its ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

Ocean currents are driven by surface winds ... water to be deflected away from the equator (northward in the Northern Hemisphere, southward in the Southern Hemisphere). This Coriolis Effect ...

Ocean currents are movements of water horizontally ... to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left south of the equator Different patterns of warming and cooling control the ...

Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and hold enormous potential to generate clean electricity through ocean currents ... areas like South Africa and northern Brazil made precise ...

They’re called Velella velella, or “by-the-wind sailors,” because they have a structure that resembles a sail, letting them catch breezes and travel on ocean currents. Their sails are even ...

A warm ocean current ... it was this warm current that tipped the planet into an ice age. As the warm waters evaporated, this supplied more moisture to the cold northern regions of the planet ...