A mysterious cold patch off Greenland points to a weakening ocean current, and the ripples could reach the West Coast.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The global ocean circulation system. Maphoto / Riccardo Pravettoni via GRID-Arendal As warming weakens ocean circulation, the seas ...

Thermohaline circulation refers to the global system of ocean currents driven by variations in water density, itself controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline). This “global conveyor ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A key system in regulating the earth's climate may be on course to a ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', Earth enters a sudden period of flash freezing due to the collapse of the Gulf Stream. People and buildings are buried under mountains of ice and snow, as ...

Critics say the move to retire the $360 million system doesn't make sense. The National Science Foundation cites new scientific priorities.

In January this year, Digital Journal reported on a study funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of ...

The heat wave battering Europe may have an unlikely partner in crime: a patch of cold ocean water south of Iceland and ...

The Gulf of Mexico exhibits a complex circulation system driven by wind forcing, buoyancy fluxes and boundary interactions. At its core lies the Loop Current, a deep-reaching, warm western boundary ...

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 ...

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a ...

Nearly every corner of the global ocean has warmed over the past century. But one patch of the North Atlantic, located southeast of Greenland and Iceland, has spent decades doing the opposite. While ...