As the Atlantic's current weakens, North Atlantic salinity could swing more wildly than ever, raising flood risk on Europe's ...

Now scientists think they know what’s behind the blob: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a tangle of ...

Nature sometimes makes the most dangerous things look harmless. A glassy pool, a quiet lake, a pretty tree, and a narrow ...

It’s not completely clear what the impact of this winter’s El Niño will be,” writes Our Ocean Backyard columnist Gary Griggs, “but all signs to date are indicating a major event.” ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

One of Earth’s most vital ocean currents is rapidly weakening in response to global warming. Its collapse could send devastating ripples through the planet’s climate system. The potential consequences ...

A preliminary study suggests that blocking off the waterway between Russia and Alaska could help the survival of a key system of ocean currents. But there could be potential unforeseen consequences, p ...

The potential collapse of a key Atlantic ocean current − due to human-caused climate change − is in the news again. You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a scarier scenario than what's going on now ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By tracking how temperature patterns shift over time, it can reveal fast-moving, ...

Atlantic Ocean currents that are vital for keeping Earth's climate in check will halve in strength by 2100 and may be closer to collapse than first thought, a new study finds. The Atlantic Meridional ...