May 15, 2025
Mapping the Mozambique Channel
The Mozambique Channel boasts some of the world's most turbulent waters, driven by eddies hundreds of kilometers wide. Eddies of this size -- known as mesoscale -- determine regional flows that influence local biodiversity, sediment mixing, and how plastic pollution moves. (Image credit: ship - A. Lamielle/Wikimedia Commons, eddies - P. Penven et al.; research credit: P. Penven et al.; via Eos) Read the full article