A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world’s strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, ...

A little background: What’s so special about the Galápagos? There is far more than one could learn in a lifetime about geology, ecology, biology, and evolution from the Galápagos Archipelago, and part ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

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, saltier water off the U.S. coast, according ...

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 ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

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 key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has ...