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 ...

The failure of the Gulf of Panama’s seasonal upwelling system has left scientists wondering what happens next.

Scientists may have to rethink the relationship between the ocean's circulation and its long-term capacity to store carbon, new research suggests. As the ocean gets weaker, it could release more ...

A new study projects that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—the system of currents that includes the ...

A team of the world’s leading ocean and climate scientists in 2024 penned an open letter presented at the Arctic Circle ...

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.

The East/Japan Sea is a complex and dynamic marginal sea whose circulation patterns are governed by a combination of local atmospheric forcing, basin geometry, and exchanges with surrounding margins.

A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A re-creation of how ancient sea surface temperatures, ocean and atmosphere ...

A 2025 research paper showed that a major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere reversed directions for the first time in recorded history. Rating: False (About this rating?) Context: The paper ...