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

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

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 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 ...

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 is considered like the Gulf Stream of the Pacific, a very large current that can rapidly carry the radioactivity into the interior" of the ocean, Buesseler said.

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.

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 ...

One paper used numerical simulations to test navigating the strong Kuroshio Current. The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ...

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 ...

Kuroshio current may be responsible for climatic discomfort in Tokyo, scientists find. Tohoku University. Journal Journal of Climate Funder MEXT, NASA, National Science Foundation, JSPS ...

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization estimates the Kuroshio Current could potentially generate as much as 200 gigawatts — about 60% of Japan’s present ...