With an 80% chance of forming, the pattern threatens to drive up temperatures and fuel drought and flooding worldwide.

A developing El Niño is already altering Pacific winds and ocean heat, setting up possible shifts in U.S. weather and ...

PRINCETON — "This is so cool," Jorge Sarmiento said, twisting around in his chair to tap on a desktop computer until its screen was filled with blue circles, red arrows and green eddies marking a ...

Scientists have spotted something dramatically unusual in the ocean, and it could be a warning sign of things to come. Warm air dances with cold air; cold water chases warm water. It's all a part of a ...

U-M reseachers have used a U.S. Navy ocean forecasting model to help bring ocean patterns into clearer focus, potentially benefitting weather forecast models.

In the summer of 2012, a series of punishing heat waves roasted a large portion of the U.S. with record-breaking temperatures that helped spawn one of the most widespread and costliest droughts to hit ...

As global temperatures rise, our oceans are heating up. Scientists recently found that warmer ocean temperatures are leading to stronger eddy currents — swirling currents that transport warm or cold ...

The ocean is full of invisible workers. Trillions of microbes quietly break down carbon-containing organic matter, which ...