Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to ...

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, it becomes the Kuroshio ...

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, it becomes the Kuroshio ...

First broadcast on July 17, 2025 Peter Barakan visits the region of Tosa, famous for the mighty Kuroshio Current and bonito ...

The Kuroshio Current flows north, bringing warm water from the tropics to Japan's southern coast. Since 2017, however, it has meandered off its traditional path, turning south before continuing ...

Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research and develop of the power generating potential of the Kuroshio Current.

“The Kuroshio Current Extension is home to some of the highest biodiversity (number of organisms) in the world ocean today,” Adriane R. Lam, a paleoceanographer and Binghamton University ...

Citations Y. Zhang et al. Strengthening of the Kuroshio current by intensifying tropical cyclones. Science. Vol. 368, May 29, 2020, p. 988. doi: 10.1126/science.aax5758.

Adriane R. Lam, R. Mark Leckie, Molly O. Patterson, Illuminating the Past to See the Future of Western Boundary Currents, Oceanography, Vol. 33, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON PALEOCEANOGRAPHY: LESSONS FOR A ...