The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Climate reveals that two distinct bands in the world’s oceans are warming at ...

Arctic ocean is warming at record pace, threatening collapse of AMOC and heightening risk of severe coastal flooding in ...

A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate could be weakening.

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

But in recent decades, human-driven warming could be causing the currents to slow once more, and scientists have been working to determine whether and when they might undergo another great ...

The Arctic is now warming faster than most other regions in the world, potentially disrupting the key current that ...

The first was in 2022. Now another record has been broken in 2023. An ocean current which previously protected the ice from warm water has weakened. Winds have strengthened and changed position.

LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Countries' current emissions pledges to limit climate change would still put the world on track to warm by nearly 3 degrees Celsius this century, according to a United ...

Some are, therefore, proposing enormous underwater curtains be installed to keep warming currents away from the ice’s edge. No one can say yet what such curtains would be made of, how they would ...