Scientists found that atmospheric winds can either slow or energize ocean eddies depending on their direction.

New research uncovers unexpected ways atmospheric winds impact ocean eddies, influencing ocean weather patterns with greater ...

A new study of satellite imagery and high-resolution climate model data upends previous assumptions and provides insight about how the atmosphere and ocean weather patterns interact. The new research ...

Earth’s shell is made ... plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens, eventually creating a basin which could lead to the birth of a new ocean. “We can see that oceanic crust is ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The Isthmus of Panama formed, connecting North and South America, and the ...

This was when the Earth was ... a new narrow ocean basin with its own mid-ocean ridge between the Nubian and Somalian plates.’ A 35-mile fissure in Ethiopia was caused by the system (Picture ...

“Then a collision happened first in the East and the marine connection to the Indian Ocean ... system functioned in a stable way (until the Bosporus opened and the Suez Channel was made ...

Warm-water coral reefs are largely dependent on the physical and chemical changes occurring in the surface of the ocean, whereas cold-water reef systems are tied relatively ... unprecedented rise of ...

The Swarm satellites, launched in 2013, carry sensitive magnetometers that can spot tiny variations in Earth's magnetic field caused by the tidal movements of the ocean. Earth's magnetic field is ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.