For two decades, instruments bolted to the Atlantic seafloor have recorded the pulse of one of Earth’s most important ocean ...

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The speed and direction of deep currents off Mozambique’s coast are more subject to change than scientists expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...

Despite being a planet away, Mars may be triggering “giant whirlpools” in the Earth’s oceans. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed samples ...

In the grand theater of the cosmos, where celestial bodies waltz to the timeless rhythms of gravity and motion, lies a story of Earth and Mars — a tale that intertwines the orbits of these neighboring ...

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Scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming patterns and the speeding up of deep ocean circulation.