An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation ...

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent “Amasia” will form from the collision of North ...

The findings provide new insight into the role the North Pacific Ocean plays in the planet's climate, said Alan Mix, an oceanographer and paleoclimatologist in Oregon State University's College of ...

The European Space Agency’s 5,550-pound ERS-2 satellite reentered the atmosphere at 12:17 p.m. Eastern Time somewhere “over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii,” according to ...

For starters, its members live year-round in the North Pacific Ocean, while most other orcas migrate around the world. They also only eat fish, avoiding mammals such as sea lions that most orcas ...

Essentially, a persistent La Niña-like weather pattern across the tropical eastern Pacific, an area covering about 8.2% of the globe, has created a "cool spot," he says.

Our ocean planet, with water covering more than 70 percent of its surface, is full of strange rhythms and gyres like the oscillation in the North Pacific.

The research, which draws from not-for-profit The Ocean Cleanup’s systematic surveys of the NPGP between 2015 and 2022, found an unexpected rise in mass concentration of plastic fragments that ...

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, ... and this ...

The formation of coastal sea ice, seen here in the Arctic Ocean, plays an important role in driving "overturning circulation" in the North Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Karla Knudson) A NASA satellite ...