The world’s strongest ocean current is losing its pace, and scientists are raising alarms. This vital current plays a crucial ...

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up; it’s been getting colder. A team of scientists say ...

Often called the "cold blob", this swath of water in the North Atlantic has bucked the global warming trend, cooling even as ...

The Gulf Stream has been slowly drifting north near Cape Hatteras — and scientists say that movement is a hidden warning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ocean currents contain kinetic energy that can be converted to electrical power using turbines. This is similar to offshore wind ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is what to do about it.

The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. To predict how ocean currents in the ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties. As ...

A warming North Atlantic will drive the Kuroshio Current's decade-scale swings, offering forecasters years of early warning ...

A drifter is a buoyant surface float tethered to a weighted sea anchor, called a drogue, that hangs about 50 feet (15 meters) below the surface. The anchor lets the float track the water’s motion ...

A teen’s $12 ocean-current generator turned moving water into electricity and sparked new ideas for off-grid energy.