The black and white Galapagos Penguins landed on the endangered species list in 2000 after the population plummeted to only a few hundred individuals Most live on the archipelago's westernmost ...

Ocean currents are driven by surface winds, Earth's rotation, and differences in salinity. Trade winds blow warm surface waters in tropical oceans and seas from east to west. Warm water pools ...

A new University of Miami study looked at forty years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep ...

The second entails weakening of eastern Pacific trade winds during boreal summer ... the Galápagos Islands is similar to that of the known cold biases in ocean models and the current National Oceanic ...

Thus, ocean currents regulate global climate ... poles — and much less of Earth’s land would be habitable." As trade winds weaken and strengthen in the Pacific Ocean, sea surface temperatures ...