When you hear about items spilling from shipping containers into the ocean, it’s usually less than stellar news. In 1992, ...

Map: Where all the junk in the ocean ends up. Jan. 28, 2012 8: ... led a team that created a computer model based on ocean currents to map out where those patches will pop up a decade after trash ...

The first thing to keep in mind is that ocean currents are very thin compared to the diameter of Earth. They’re only about four kilometers (13,000 feet) deep at most, and surface currents can be just ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild conditions.

Scientists say data from satellites have allowed them to create one of the most detailed maps of the globe's ocean currents, along with their movements, ever produced.