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

A scheme of the upper-layer circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean. Red=warm currents, blue=cold currents. White boxes 1 to 5 indicate five different areas of analysis where temperature, salinity, ...

The critical system of ocean currents that loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening. According to two new studies, that system could be far closer to collapse than previously thought. Climate ...

Along the Atlantic seaboard, more than 135 million Americans live in a zone where the ocean is no longer rising steadily but is poised to climb in abrupt, uneven surges as a key Atlantic current ...

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 ...