From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

In recent years, scientists have raised alarms about the potential collapse of key ocean currents in the Atlantic, with ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Scientists have identified the Denmark Strait cataract, an underwater waterfall between Greenland and Iceland, as the world's largest. Plunging 11,500 ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

Researchers say tugboats could tow huge underwater parachutes around the ocean to manually power a vital ocean current.

New research offers a rare glimmer of hope for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of ocean ...

Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

Because salt water draws up heat from the deep ocean and makes it harder for sea ice to regrow - as well as bringing up ...

This anomaly, which has cooled even as surrounding waters have warmed, is now better understood thanks to new research led by ...