A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

Mun was a tropical depression in the North Pacific Ocean Tuesday afternoon Japan time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said ...

Marine creatures that drift through the ocean are riding currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A surprising number of delicate invertebrates, called neustons, are making it home, according ...

About this issue Abstract ABSTRACTLocated at the crossroads of the tropical and subtropical circulations, the westward-flowing North Equatorial Current (NEC) and its subsequent bifurcation off the ...

Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades, funneling human-made debris into a region that extends for hundreds of thousands of square miles in the North Pacific ...

While satellites and offshore buoys can inform scientists about marine heat waves, the effects on ocean species are less understood.

China dispatched coast guard vessels in late Huly to the Northern Pacific Ocean for fishery law enforcement patrol, which it described as an act of a responsible " major power." ...

Understanding how eddies influence the dining behavior of open ocean predators in the deep ocean can better inform ecosystem management.

Plastic debris swept through the seas by wind and waves has piled up in large areas of the North Pacific Ocean, collectively dubbed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But on this raft of trash ...

They hang out at the nexus of the world's ocean currents, changing shape with the waves. The largest is the North Pacific Garbage Patch, known colloquially as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.