AI sheds light on hard-to-study ocean currents

The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Pendulum-like cylinder could generate electricity from ocean water currents

The system works by placing a cylindrical tube in a water current, which triggers a physical phenomenon known as vortex ...
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A pendulum-based system allows energy to be extracted from ocean currents

Converting the vibrations generated by water currents in contact with an object into energy. This is the basis of the new ...
The Scientist

How Ocean Currents Shape the Marine Microbiome

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...
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Dan Haifley, Ocean Currents | Biodiversity in the high seas

A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved,” writes columnist. “The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two ...

Tiny fossils in Japan reveal how the Pacific Ocean moved millions of years ago

Scientists in Japan discovered microscopic fossils revealing that the North Pacific Ocean was once more interconnected. The ...
KTVZ

A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat

(CNN) — Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much ...

Oil Residues Can Travel Over 5,000 Miles on Ocean Debris

Discover how scientists traced oil-coated plastics that washed up on a Florida beach back to a 2019 Brazilian oil spill that ...