An ocean system 15,000km away from Asia is slowing down and could even collapse in coming decades with devastating effects on ...

Europe’s mild climate depends on a powerful Atlantic current system that moves tropical heat north, but that system is ...

Straits of Florida — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...

The ocean is deep. That seems like a stupid thing to say, until you realize that we really only think about the ocean as separating the land.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (the AMOC) is a massive system of ocean currents that is essentially a global conveyor belt. It transports warm water from the surface in the tropics to ...

A cold water patch in the North Atlantic, known as the 'Cold Blob', suggests a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, potentially affecting global weather patterns.

A new peer-reviewed study published in Communications Earth & Environment says an abrupt northward shift in the Gulf Stream could serve as a potential early warning sign of a future collapse of the ...

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, ...