A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Atlantic Ocean ・ Size: Second largest ocean, spanning over 41 million square miles. ・ Formation: The Atlantic formed about ...

From previous studies, researchers were aware that equatorial water masses already existed in the Pacific and the Indian ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology.Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

The Indian Ocean has a gravity hole where sea levels are about 300 feet lower than nearby areas. Local gravity is slightly lower there, which has puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists Find Massive “Blob” Stretched Across the Atlantic Ocean We think of our planet as being made of distinct continents and oceans, each with a name and identity. And we make kids ...

Researchers now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause sea water temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than the ...

Another current moves water from the Pacific through the Indian Ocean and around the tip of South Africa to feed the Atlantic from the other direction. Water is always mixing at the edges of these ...

That fits into what is often seen in recent Indian Ocean dipole events. In October, for example, heavy rain led to floods and landslides in Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi, leaving four ...

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean basin on Earth, covering an area of around 41 million square miles, according to National Ocean Service. This ocean basin makes up 20% of the Earth ...

For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass ...

The Indian Ocean acts as a hub for trade routes southward to the east coast of Africa, northward to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, and westward through the Red Sea and Suez Canal to Europe.