One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely ...

Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, ...

Researchers have been exploring ocean alkalinity enhancement for the last five years. It's a way to remove carbon from our ...

A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from CO2 levels and temperature ...

Global warming is having an impact on Atlantic Ocean currents that could lead to significant shifts in weather patterns in ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating ...

Hurricanes move massive amounts of sediment from shallow reefs to deep oceans, affecting ecosystems long-term.

The planet has been steadily warming for decades as emissions rise but the stunning leap in ocean temperatures was so far above the long-term trend that scientists debated if climate forecasts were ...

A new report​ from the World Meteorological Organization delivers a stark warning: climate change​ is accelerating, with some ...

The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry by overfishing, pollution, ...

Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.