A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Pluto's surface, fitting for a world whose surface shivers at a cryogenic -364 F (-220 C), is frozen solid. But beneath that nitrogen ice may lie a subsurface ocean of liquid water. A recent study ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of how current ice melting will affect levels around ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... levels (salt leaches out of ice over time) is almost definitely first ...

Since the Gulf Stream carries warm water from the tropical Atlantic Ocean up ... many little ice quakes deep within the ice rivers on the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet. “Inside the ice stream are thin ...

The research team found that an initially modest melting of ice over North America set off a ... records preserved in ancient shorelines and ocean sediments. The sediments contain fossil coral ...