The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

Salt water in the oceans is not the same everywhere; There are water layers that have different salinities and temperatures. The phenomenon of thermohaline circulation – which results from the ...

Global warming can still trigger brutal cold snaps—and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is one of the big reasons why. This massive “ocean conveyor belt” helps regulate weather ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ocean currents that make up the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could start to ...

Researcher Léon Chafik aboard an oceanographic expedition at the Greenland–Scotland Ridge, with a CTD rosette in the background used to measure temperature, salinity, and other water properties ...

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 last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

RIT Croatia students are proudly organizing the AMOC Congress, a student-led conference dedicated to climate change awareness, education, and action. The event will take place on Saturday, December 6, ...

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths. The efficiency of this process can be estimated using the so-called water ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...