New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would ...

A major Atlantic current could collapse by the middle of the century as a result of climate change, prompting extreme cold in Europe and sea level rise along the eastern coast of the U.S., according ...

An alarming study claims the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is weakening more than believed previously. But ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By ...

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During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

For two decades, instruments bolted to the Atlantic seafloor have recorded the pulse of one of Earth’s most important ocean ...

Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface currents over large areas in greater detail than ever before.

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...

Some newly published findings from an Idaho State University professor and his colleagues point out how changes to currents an ocean away can impact climates on the other side of the globe. The new ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Melting ice sheets in ...