The slowdown could affect ocean temperatures ... "It's like a merry-go-round. It keeps on moving around and around, so it takes a longer time to come back to Antarctica," Gayen said.

To begin with, he says, if heat goes into warming the deep ocean rather than surface waters, it will have less effect on sea-level rise because cold water in the ocean's depths expands less than ...

Over time, these sediment pulses may affect ocean chemistry, coral health, and deep-sea biodiversity. Scientists observe ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental ... of rates of carbon recycling and the conditions that affect it is important for evaluating the role of the ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

These processes are expected to drive large changes in marine ecosystems. While numerous studies have examined the effects of ocean acidification on coccolithophores, less is known on their combined ...