In recent years, studies have raised the alarm about the slowing and potential abrupt shutdown of the Atlantic end of the ...

It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe. But ...

The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The concept of thermohaline circulation might sound like a complex term from a science textbook, but it plays a crucial role ...

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new ... migrating along what’s been dubbed the “great whale conveyor belt.” “Humpback whales and gray whales make the longest ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... “We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman, a University of Vermont biologist ...