Ocean heat, not air temperature, may decide Antarctica’s fate as new models predict widespread ice shelf loss by 2300.

Fukuoka, Japan—The interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere plays a vital role in shaping the Earth’s climate. Changing sea surface temperatures can heat or cool the atmosphere, and changes ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Humans burp after a big meal. Heat from climate change might be released by the Southern Ocean into the atmosphere sometime ...

A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...

We've gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet's climate, even chasing lava-spewing ...

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation ...

For short term predictions, like the storm system moving through this weekend, we typically look to low and high pressure ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

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