A new study suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has not weakened since the 1960s — but there's no doubt ...

A new study suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has not weakened since the 1960s — but there's no doubt the circulation will slow in the future, experts say.

Here's why it's important. A giant mass of seaweed threatens beach season in the U.S. A giant mass of seaweed threatens beach season in the U.S. Why is an ocean current critical to world weather ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...

As tides push ocean water around the globe, its interaction with the planet's magnetic field generates a weak electric current. This current in turn produces a weak electromagnetic signal that can ...

The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.

Oceans hold onto this heat for longer than the land does and ocean currents move this heat around. In total, ocean currents transfer about 25 per cent of the global heat budget. Ocean currents are ...

A key current in the wider Atlantic Ocean current system has remained “remarkably stable” over the past four decades, a new ...

Scientists recover some of the instruments used to study the AMOC Our oceans move vast amounts of water, heat, chemicals and microscopic life around the planet - with one ocean current ...

In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” the Atlantic Ocean’s main current system is disrupted and sets off a chain of disastrous events from monster storms to an Ice Age across the northern ...

The team reconstructed the speed of ocean currents near the bottom of the Southern ... By measuring the carbon isotopes in organisms that live in the upper ocean water column and on the seafloor ...