FAU’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) has received an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of ...

The currents in question are those forming the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a giant ocean conveyor ...

The Earth’s climate has dampening feedbacks as well as runaway tipping points, but they might be too small to save us.

In research published today in Nature, we show almost half of the heat waves and cold snaps reaching the ocean's twilight zone—between 200 and 1,000 meters—are driven by large eddy currents ...

The study was conducted by Australia's national science agency CSIRO and the Chinese ... The research also highlights the influence of ocean currents, in particular eddies, on MHWs, indicating ...

Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before ... at The Arctic University of Norway, told Live Science in an email. The Last Interglacial period (130,000 to 115,000 ...

A new study published October 31, 2024, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans has revealed significant acceleration ...

We used this rich data to uncover the role of eddy currents. Ocean eddies are huge loops of swirling current, sometimes hundreds of kilometres across and reaching down over 1,000 metres.

Complementary studies by separate teams have explored the interactions between melting ice in the North Atlantic and the flow of a crucial ocean current. One intensifies the alarm many ...

However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected Arctic warming by up to 2 degrees Celsius by ... Oct. 22, 2024 — Polar bears in some parts of the high ...