A new study of satellite imagery and high-resolution climate model data upends previous assumptions and provides insight about how the atmosphere and ocean weather patterns interact. The new research ...

A garbage patch is a large area of human-produced debris usually trapped by a circulating ocean current called a gyre. Every ocean has at least one garbage patch. Garbage patches also accumulate in ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...