Reference Terms
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ocean current
An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.
Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Ocean current", which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Related Stories
1
2
Earth & Climate News
June 23, 2024
June 21, 2024 Some 1,000 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places -- a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui. Eventually, their numbers ballooned to ...
June 10, 2024 Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate ...
May 29, 2024 Orchid plants nurture their seedlings via an underground fungal network, new research has ...
May 22, 2024 Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's outermost layers. If confirmed, the findings could help scientists better predict space ...
Latest Headlines
updated 12:56 pm ET
June 21, 2024 Protected areas, like nature reserves, can conserve biodiversity without harming local economic growth, countering a common belief that conservation restricts development. A new study outlines what ...
June 21, 2024 A professor analyzes the conflicting impacts of human activities on extreme spring ...
June 21, 2024 Green hydrogen often, but certainly not always, leads to CO2 ...
June 21, 2024 As part of an investigation to boost agricultural yields and develop crops that are resilient to climate change, Berkeley Lab scientists have introduced RhizoNet, a computational tool that harnesses ...
June 21, 2024 Inland seas around the world are drying up due to increasing human water use and accelerating climate change, and their desiccation is releasing ...
June 20, 2024 The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro ...
June 20, 2024 The carbon stored globally by plants is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new ...
June 20, 2024 A devastating hurricane transformed a monkey society by changing the pros and cons of interacting with others, new research ...
June 19, 2024 Roughly one in four U.S. households have soil exceeding the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead screening levels of 200 parts per million ...
June 19, 2024 An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ...