While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...

Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

The iceberg A23a, which originally calved from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, became trapped on the seafloor and ensnared in an ocean vortex for decades. It finally broke free in December ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like ...

Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event, fueled hurricanes ...

The world’s oceans are warming four times faster than they were in the late 1980s, according to a new study. The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean ...

While ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade in the late 1980s, they are now increasing at 0.27 degrees Celsius per decade, scientists said Tuesday. “As you know ...