For decades, scientists have asserted that the leakage of warm, salty Indian Ocean water south of South Africa into the Atlantic is a major contributor to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...

The circulation of the Southern Ocean constitutes a central component of the global overturning system, driven primarily by strong westerly winds and modulated by complex interactions with mesoscale ...

The Indian Ocean circulation is characterised by a complex interplay of monsoon-driven currents, interbasin exchanges and basin-scale gyres that operate on seasonal to decadal timescales. During ...

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 ...

A new study has investigated how future changes in weather patterns could affect the tropical Pacific Ocean and its ecosystems. The research, based on complex computer models, has shown that these ...

As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK ...

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) ...

At the end of the last Ice Age 13 to 11.5 thousand years ago, the North Atlantic Deep Water circulation system that drives the Gulf Stream may have shut down because of melting glaciers that added ...