Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...

Europe’s Warming Ocean Current ‘Unlikely’ to Collapse This Century The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is due to weaken but unlikely to stop abruptly, sparing Europe a startling ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica’s ice sheets ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the world’s strongest ocean current, researchers said Monday. An influx of fresh water from ...

Climate change is warming Europe, but scientists are also studying whether a weakened Atlantic current could make Britain colder, with Laurie Laybourne, director of the Strategic Climate Risks ...

The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

Chunks of ice break off from the Greenland ice sheet in 2017, creating a swarm of icebergs in a fjord. (David Goldman / Associated Press) Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of ...

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful ocean current on Earth. As it flows around ...