A vast system of ocean currents that ferries warm water from the tropics toward the North Atlantic helps keep western Europe ...
A key ocean current in the North Atlantic Ocean is weakening to the point of total collapse due to climate change, a new study warns. Scientists say the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre – a massive system ...
Bivalves, such as clams, oysters and mussels, record seasonal environmental changes in their shells, making them living chronicles of climate history. A new study of bivalve shells has detected two ...
Earth’s oceans are heating up, but one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree Celsius since the 19th century. Scientists now think they know why: The “cold blob” is the result of ...
Agulhas Leakage (visualized by white dots circumventing Southern Africa) entering the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Scientists thought they knew wh ...
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 ...