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Studying the remote ecosystems of Alaska’s North Slope, a critical region for energy, transportation, security, biodiversity and local communities.
An annual analysis of air and sea surface temperatures tracks changes to the Earth's average global temperature.
If you want to understand how interconnected our planet is—how patterns and events in one place can affect life half…
These maps depict how much hotter or cooler an ocean basin was compared to the long-term average. Temperature anomalies can…
At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton. Like plants…
Sea surface temperatures have a large influence on climate and weather. Even changes of just a few degrees Celsius can…
The atmosphere and the ocean are intimately connected. Ocean temperatures influence rainfall patterns throughout the world, so when ocean temperatures…
The Gulf Stream is a warm current amidst the cool North Atlantic. But the pattern is hardly uniform.
This color-coded image from June 1, 2010, shows which equatorial ocean waters are warm enough to promote hurricane formation.
