A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of years, this intricate network of currents has maintained Earth's weather ...

A colossal spinning ocean current five times more powerful than the Gulf Stream could collapse, triggering a worldwide environmental catastrophe, researchers have cautioned. The Antarctic Circumpolar ...

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Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

As global electricity use grows, the strain on traditional energy sources increases. Renewable options like wind and solar have become popular, yet there's a massive, largely untapped resource beneath ...

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 ...

The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only low-latitude current that connects the two bodies of water, it plays a key role ...

RASCOE: And while most of us like to sit by the ocean, NPR's Short Wave podcast is diving in, with this story from producer Hannah Chinn on how the ocean and the atmosphere affect each other.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk Scientists warn current collapse could trigger modern-day ice age for Northern Europe Researchers working to understand how, ...