Scientists have spent the past decade tracking an enormous pool of unusually warm water in the North Pacific, a marine “blob” that has reshaped ecosystems and challenged long‑held assumptions about ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast. Cool water welling up from the depths is thought to be ...

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California. Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the ...

You may have seen some chatter this week about a blob of warm water in the Pacific that could make Minnesota’s winter brutal. If you haven’t, don’t gasp just yet. Yes, an ongoing Pacific “heat blob” ...

Look, seasonal forecasting is tricky, and there are LOTS of large-scale climate processes that factor into it. Marine heat waves, which is what the blob is, are definitely one of them. And they are ...

Over the last decade, Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has defied this trend. It has stubbornly remained colder than ...