Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic ...

Scientists have detected a northward Gulf Stream shift that may signal a looming Atlantic climate tipping point.

A major Atlantic current could collapse by the middle of the century as a result of climate change, prompting extreme cold in Europe and sea level rise along the eastern coast of the U.S., according ...

Scientists at the University of Miami have found that the Atlantic Meridional Tipping Circulation (AMOC) is simultaneously ...

A new study has concluded that the collapse of a "prominent and powerful" ocean current would have serious impacts on Europe. This marks the first time researchers have tested multiple climate ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are sounding the alarm, as a critical Atlantic Ocean current is under existential threat. The result, if things take a ...

Some newly published findings from an Idaho State University professor and his colleagues point out how changes to currents ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Melting ice sheets in ...

(Alfred Wegener Institute/Hanna Knahl, Patrick Scholz) New simulations show that the world's strongest ocean current didn't ...

Scientists reveal that Antarctica’s ocean current formed slowly and needed winds, ice, and shifting continents to shape Earth’s climate.