For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', Earth enters a sudden period of flash freezing due to the collapse of the Gulf ...

In Brief High follow-up costs: A weakening of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could cause follow-up costs of several trillion euros by the year 2100, as less carbon ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a massive system of ocean currents, helps regulate global weather patterns by transporting warm water north and cold water south.

The suggest the Atlantic overturning circulation will weaken by about 30% by 2060. But these estimates do not take into account the meltwater that runs into the subarctic ocean.

Colossal changes to ocean circulation have caused the waters of the North Atlantic to become significantly saltier in the past 50 years when compared to the world's other great ocean, the Pacific.

How will climate change influence the ocean’s circulation in the future? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a researcher from Massachusetts Institute of ...