A key Atlantic current may collapse this century, potentially impacting temperatures, rainfall, droughts and sea level rise ...

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

A key Atlantic Ocean current system that helps regulate the planet's climate could weaken more than expected by 2100, with ...

The Atlantic Ocean’s most powerful circulation system may be closer to a dangerous tipping point than mainstream climate ...

The system of ocean currents that keeps London milder than Labrador and steers hurricane tracks across the Atlantic is losing ...

Earlier this year we followed British scientists out into the Atlantic studying one of the planet’s most critical life ...

The Atlantic current system, or more formally the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is more likely to ...

Straits of Florida — At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he ...

Some of the rainiest places on Earth could see their annual precipitation nearly halved if climate change continues to alter the way ocean water moves around the globe. In a new CU Boulder-led study ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this “cold blob” has been linked to weakening ocean currents that ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of currents responsible for shuttling warm water northward and colder, denser water to the south. This "conveyor belt" process ...

Parts of the Amazon rainforest could see a 40 percent drop in annual rainfall if climate change slows the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC), according to a new study led by CU Boulder with ...