Of the world’s five ocean basins — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic — the Atlantic has the highest salinity, says the National Weather Service. This is because salinity ...

From the Arctic to the Southern, the five ocean basins are home to thousands of marine life and millions of square miles of water. The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean, which has an ...

Explore the science behind the ocean’s saltiness in this web story, uncovering seven key explanations, including volcanic ...

the pressure or the depth that those instruments are at and we also measure the salinity, so how salty the ocean is." Scientists use these measurements to inform climate models, which give them a ...