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

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

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

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

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

PASADENA, Calif. – New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no ...

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 ...

So much on this planet depends on a simple matter of density. In the Atlantic Ocean, a conveyor belt of warm water heads north from the tropics, reaching the Arctic and chilling. That makes it denser, ...

Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic ...