Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of ...

The Ocean's Global Heat Distribution System One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Iceland declares Atlantic Ocean current collapse a national security threat as scientists warn it could trigger a modern-day ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low ...

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster that ...

Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the ...

How can open ocean currents generate energy? Ocean currents contain kinetic energy that can be converted to electrical power using turbines. This is similar to offshore wind farms, or wind turbines ...

As global electricity use grows, the strain on traditional energy sources increases. Renewable options like wind and solar have become popular, yet there's a massive, largely untapped resource beneath ...

The ocean has long been treated as boundless—a frontier for extraction and a sink for waste. This perception has driven ...