The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These two regions don't mix except in certain special areas, which creates a large ...

Could ocean currents ensure that global warming continues even after we have reached carbon-neutrality?  One of the concepts ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

The weakening of the AMOC has paused since the early 2010s. A recent study by scientists at AOML found that the Atlantic ...

How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans ...

The global ocean “conveyor belt” circulation, shown in part here as red and blue lines, circulates cooler seawater below the surface and warmer seawater at the surface throughout the world’s ...

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that's crucial for regulating the world's weather and ecosystems might be more stable ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation or AMOC is a system of currents, known as the 'conveyor belt of the ocean. Warm, surface water flows north - bringing heat to Europe in a current ...

The sinking of water near Greenland pulls water from elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and the cycle repeats, like a conveyor ...

The four main controlling factors are: the world’s circulation system the ocean conveyor belt system the effects of latitude and altitude the greenhouse effect Warm air rises at the Equator ...