The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of years, this intricate network of currents has maintained Earth's weather ...

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Far from shore and hidden beneath the waves, scientists are tracking swirling columns of water that behave like slow-motion tornadoes in the sea. These spinning features, known as ocean eddies, are ...

Years of underfunding and new delays in federal grantmaking threaten buoys and ocean monitoring assets run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that protect fishermen, cargo ships ...