The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined ...

A new study gives alarming glimpse into the future, as some scientists warn these currents could be just decades from ...

Can we stop it weakening by 2050? Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It's five times stronger than the Gulf Stream ...

With that in mind, new research out of the University of California, Riverside suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could help reduce projected warming by up to 2 degrees Celsius.

In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” the Atlantic Ocean’s main current system is disrupted and sets off a chain of disastrous events from monster storms to an Ice Age across the northern ...

The Atlantic Ocean's most vital ocean current is showing troubling signs of reaching a disastrous tipping point. Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf tells Live Science what the impacts could be.

After sifting through ocean current data dating back three decades, researchers at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have identified ideal locations for generating renewable energy.

A key current in the wider Atlantic Ocean current system has remained “remarkably stable” over the past four decades, a new analysis suggests. Published in Nature Communications, the study is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of ...

A critical ocean current is unlikely to shut down before the end of this century even under the most extreme climate scenarios, according to new findings that undermine doomsday predictions of an ...

Scientists have warned that the dangers of the collapse of a key Atlantic Ocean current that helps regulate the Earth's climate have been "greatly underestimated". In an open letter published ...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - More than 40 climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in an Atlantic Ocean current, which could trigger ...