Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of ...

The Ocean's Global Heat Distribution System One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

RASCOE: And while most of us like to sit by the ocean, NPR's Short Wave podcast is diving in, with this story from producer Hannah Chinn on how the ocean and the atmosphere affect each other.

Climate change could push the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC the brink of collapse within decades, ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea, presents new evidence that ...