About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists ...

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean salty blob. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates ...

The results confirmed that certain patterns in ocean saltiness can fuel El Niño strength. During springtime in the western ...

Not only is sea ice melting in the ocean surrounding Antarctica, but the water is also getting saltier. Overly salty water brings heat up from deep in the ocean, making it harder for sea ice to reform ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland.

Algae growth on an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Surface Mooring, which measured water properties and velocity at the US Northeast shelfbreak, right after recovery. Woods Hole, Mass. (May 19, ...

Across the world’s oceans, a fleet of autonomous instruments known as Argo floats are drifting with the ocean currents. These floats are part of the Argo program, a network of profiling floats that ...

Short answer: no, not by enough to make the whole ocean inhospitable. The ocean is salty because the elements that make up salt (mostly sodium and chlorine, but also sulphur, magnesium, calcium and a ...