The U.S. gains a major military advantage in the Indo-Pacific from Diego Garcia's location, about 2,200 miles from Iran and 3 ...

An Australian study revealed how coral reefs could gain resilience in other areas, offering hope for these critical marine ...

Images by Elianne Dipp via Pexels. Sri Lanka’s location in the Indian Ocean provides it with a unique geographic advantage when it comes to marine biodiversity. The island’s waters are enriched by ...

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, bathymetric features, and boundary currents shape ideal conditions for ...

OK, back to science! The CLIVAR P16S field campaign has entered the waters of the South Pacific known as a subtropical gyre. Gyre means “circular or spiral motion.” In the ocean, wind generated ...

The ocean gyre also pulls in floating plastic waste, creating the North Atlantic Garbage Patch —a grim testament to human pollution. Scientists estimate that this growing vortex of trash contains ...

Compared by some scientists to black holes, ocean eddies have vital importance to world climate and more. Discover how ocean eddies form.

"The long-distance dispersal to Australia was probably facilitated by the Indian Ocean gyre, which is an oceanic current that circulates south past Madagascar, where it probably picked up baobab ...

Most likely, multiple baobab seeds hitched rides as vegetation was transported by the Indian Ocean gyre, a current that circulates counterclockwise between Australia, South Asia and the eastern ...

Cross comparison of Activity Index (AI) on marine ecology research from 1985 (year corresponding to the first study in the oligotrophic open ocean) to 2020, between the five major oligotrophic ...

Indian Ocean Subtropical Mode Water (IOSTMW) exists in the subsurface of the Indian Ocean subtropical gyre, and is characterized by thermostads capped below the summer thermocline (Tsubouchi et al., ...

A global dataset of ocean plastic pollution between 1979 and 2019 reveals a rapid and unprecedented increase in ocean plastics since 2005, according to a study published March 8, 2023 in the open ...