Scientists have found that the AMOC may be far more vulnerable to rapid warming than to temperature alone. When warming ...

As climate change advances, the ocean's overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the ...

Research suggests speed of global warming plays crucial role in determining whether Atlantic circulation system could ...

Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the ocean around Antarctica, which could reverberate across the planet and intensify global warming, are happening ...

A vast Atlantic circulation system carries warm surface water northward and returns colder, denser water at depth. Evidence from temperatures, ocean sediments, models and modern instruments indicates ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new joint study from the University of Gothenburg and the German Alfred ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean ...

Solving an underwater paradox Bethan Wynne-Cattanach and Matthew Alford from Scripps Institution of Oceanography investigate deep water upwelling aboard a research vessel. (Courtesy: San Nguyen) ...

When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth’s past caused the exchange of waters ...