A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

A Taylor column occurs when a fluid, such as ocean water, flows over a submerged object in a rotating system, like the Earth. In this case, the vortex is caused by a bump on the ocean floor called ...

The colossal iceberg known as A23a has been slowly spinning in one spot of the Southern Ocean since April. ... a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain.

The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.

A plastic waste vortex almost the size of Queensland is currently circulating the Pacific Ocean. Now, a not-for-profit is saying that, for the first time, it can tell the world "what it costs ...

The iceberg is trapped in a rotating cylinder of water called a Taylor column near the South Orkney Islands, located about 375 miles northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Each day, the iceberg ...

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could continue to stay trapped in this vortex for quite some ...

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could continue ...