The world’s oceans cover more than 70% of Earth’s surface. They’re filled with currents, some much stronger than the fastest flowing large rivers. These currents can be harnessed as clean, marine ...

Thur 21 Nov 11pm • The RRS James Cook spends nearly 260 days a year travelling around the globe monitoring changes in ocean currents, which have have a big impact on our climate.

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

Sometimes, the best thing for a penguin is to go with the flow. Magellanic penguins change their strategy for navigating home based on the strength of ocean currents, researchers report July 17 in ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

Changes to Atlantic currents could make winters in western Europe much colder and stormier (Picture: Getty) Scientists say we could have underestimated the prospect of the main Atlantic current ...

Little is known about the early life of sea turtle hatchlings but a modelling study shows the importance of ocean currents in their journeys.