The AMOC is driven, by differences in water temperatures and salinity, but climate change could disrupt that balance.

The AMOC essentially acts as a very slow conveyor belt circulating warm water north and cool water south. As the National ...

Some of us no doubt remember the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents led to an ice-covered Northern Hemisphere in a matter of days.

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core from the Southeast Pacific ...

In May of this year, satellites captured a staggering view from space: 37.5 million metric tons of floating brown seaweed ...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical waves in the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Kiko could bring ...

Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the planet’s greatest mysteries. What would happen if every last piece of ...

The delicate balance that has allowed life to flourish here on our little planet has not been completely discovered elsewhere.

Can technology save the poles? A new study says no - five proposed fixes to halt polar ice melt fail on cost, risk, and ...

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave off the coast of Africa. Will it impact North Carolina? See location ...

Recently, it has been reported that a vital ocean system, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which helps ...

The National Hurricane Center currently is tracking two tropical waves in the Atlantic basin, which covers the northern ...