A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

This ratio is small in the low-nutrient and unproductive subtropical ocean (due to a high degree of recycling) and much greater on the highly productive polar ocean (which has proportionally less ...

The Southern Ocean is the second smallest ocean. The smallest and shallowest ocean is the Arctic Ocean. It surrounds the Arctic and the North Pole. The Arctic is the coldest of all the oceans.

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...