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

"The Day After Tomorrow" imagined a world where a critical ocean current suddenly collapsed. New research says it has rapidly ...

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

A certain current in the Atlantic Ocean that is essential for temperature regulation is in danger of collapsing. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, also known as the AMOC, runs the ...

Researchers created a detailed physical model that suggests a major Atlantic Ocean current will weaken far less under climate change than indicated by more extreme climate model projections. The ...

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse ...

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

Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the past 12,000 years. An international ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...