A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

But the deep sea also experiences prolonged periods ... They're so large you can see them on satellite images. These powerful ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen ...

Similarly, heat and carbon dioxide contained in deep-ocean currents are sequestered from the atmosphere until the water rises back the surface, many years later. Similar flows in the North ...

Clam shells could help scientists understand the Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system — and predict whether that ...

The findings could provide new information about ocean currents ... Changes in the sea surface height therefore point to what lies deep beneath the surface. The team focused on three types ...

These deep ocean currents, or "overturnings", in the northern ... explained that as ocean circulation slows down, water on the surface quickly reaches its carbon-absorbing capacity and is not ...

In total, ocean currents transfer about 25 per cent ... sinks near Antarctica or Greenland to return to the surface after filling the deep ocean waters around the whole globe.

"We can still say we have better maps of the surface of the Moon and Mars than of the sea floor." "So whenever you go to the deep ocean, you find something new - not just individual species but ...

Its summit is a mile beneath the ocean surface, and yet this dead volcano teems with life. Davidson boasts coral reefs and deep-sea octopus ... grow on surfaces. The currents around seamounts ...