A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Climate change has our oceans in jeopardy. The Labrador Sea between Canada & Greenland is known as "the ocean's lung" but ...

It's the first time the ocean has been factored into the cost of carbon.

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

Ocean damage has been missing from climate math. A new study shows how counting it nearly doubles the cost of carbon pollution.

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

For the first time, a study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego ...

In global climate policy, the ocean was long treated as an afterthought, too vast to manage effectively and too resilient to ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

Consistently warming oceans have fueled a rash of subtle records, especially on the West Coast. High tides get higher; ...

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study ...