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

While there have been signs the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has slowed, it could soon stop altogether. That ...

Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central tropical Pacific Ocean (black box). Current velocity data from ...

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

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 ...

Climate models predict that if greenhouse gas emissions persist at current levels, the AMOC could weaken by 30–50 percent by ...

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

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 ...

Large-scale currents are the conveyor belts of the ocean, transporting water and nutrients and controlling Earth's climate. Surface currents are relatively easy to measure and track. But those in ...

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.