The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans ... The Arctic Ocean plays two roles in the global ocean circulation — it provides an oceanic pathway between the ...

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

Published in Nature Communications, the research suggests that a weakening ocean circulation could lead to increased carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere, contrary to previous beliefs.

The world’s nations agreed during the landmark Paris climate accord of 2015 to try to hold end-of-century warming to 1.5°C ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), moves water throughout the world's oceans powered by a combination of winds ...

The Ocean's Protective Blanket Oceans act like Earth's protective blanket, absorbing about 90% of the excess heat generated ...

It is a system that we take for granted as much as we do the circulation of our own blood ... But the effects of this mass migration in the world’s oceans are also much more intimate than ...

A study’s authors said the amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere meant increased warming is guaranteed. Read ...

The world’s oceans also play an important role in redistributing ... They are driven by both wind and thermohaline circulation interacting with each other. Wind moves the surface waters by ...

The world’s weather is dependent on several major atmospheric and ocean circulation systems. The four main controlling factors are: the world’s circulation system the ocean conveyor belt ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), moves water throughout the world's oceans powered by a combination of winds ...