Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research ...

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, ...

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, ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

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

Illuminating the Past to See the Future of Western Boundary Currents: MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE KUROSHIO CURRENT EXTENSION Adriane R. Lam , R. Mark Leckie , Molly O. Patterson ...

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Without access to modern tools or navigational aids, how did ...

Increasingly powerful tropical cyclones in the North Pacific Ocean may be fueling a powerful north-flowing ocean current, helping to boost the amount of heat it ferries to northern latitudes.By ...

“The Kuroshio Current is generally considered dangerous to navigate,” Yu-Lin Chang, a study coauthor and oceanography student from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ...

The color scale shows the water depth, and the large shaded arrow shows the swift Kuroshio current. Photo: Kaifu et al, 2025. The beginning of the voyage.

We present the first set of dissolved silicon isotope data in seawater (δ30SiSi(OH)4) from the East China Sea, a large and productive marginal sea significantly influenced by the Kuroshio Current and ...