A research team publishes a new study that sheds light on the future evolution of a key element of the climate system: the ...

Scientists now believe that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could slow much sooner than expected. We will ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

More bad news for the ocean current at the center of the fictional (and scientifically inaccurate) "Day After Tomorrow" ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...

New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...