Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

Have you ever seen videos or photos of two oceans meeting but not mixing? This fascinating natural phenomenon occurs due to differences in water properties such as temperature, salinity, and density.

It's not just coral reefs impacted from less mixing and more surface warming. Much of what is called ocean "primary productivity" by scientists, better known simply as 'life' to most people, is ...

Further, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans do mix – and their iron and clay content is not an important factor informing mixture, according to a NASA oceanographer. Follow us on Facebook!

Layers of salty ocean water mix with layers of fresher water, creating a salty staircase or layering driven by small-scale convection known as salt fingers. Although scientists have known about ...

Ocean mixing is currently not well simulated by climate models, even though it plays a major role in ocean heat uptake. Oceans are capable of absorbing, storing and slowly releasing large ...

Ocean species mix as sea ice melts, with unknown consequences. By Amy Kraft. January 22, 2016 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News Melting Arctic ice is not ...

Tiny Shrimp Mix It Up Big : The Two-Way Each night, the organisms gather in a "vertical stampede" to feed at the ocean's surface. Research suggests the columns of swimming animals can create large ...

Crashing waves aren’t the only tumultuous parts of the sea. Far beneath any ocean’s surface, immensely heavy layers of water are constantly turning over, like the icy contents of 7-Eleven ...

When ice possibly swathed the entire world, the oceans underneath may have nevertheless surprisingly churned, potentially helping to provide life with vital nutrients, new research suggests. For ...