The Beaufort Gyre, an important ocean current, is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, scientists have warned.

Massive shifts in water currents around Australia are set to have far-reaching implications for our marine life, fishing industry and even our weather patterns.

Massive shifts in water currents around Australia are set to have far-reaching implications for our marine life, fishing industry and even our weather patterns.

FELICITY OGILVIE: The scientists have studied and compared five ocean currents that run along the east coasts of Africa, Japan, the USA, Brazil and Australia.

Large-scale currents are the conveyor belts of the ocean, transporting water and nutrients and controlling Earth's climate. Surface currents are relatively easy to measure and track. But those in ...

The deep-water flows which drive ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050, a team of Australian scientists says. The currents carry vital heat, oxygen, carbon and nutrients around the globe.

Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide in the air over the past 11,000 years.

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster ...