How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans and ecosystems to adjust. A slower increase gives humans time to move away ...

A new study of satellite imagery and high-resolution climate model data upends previous assumptions and provides insight about how the atmosphere and ocean weather patterns interact. The new ...

With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, a slower circulation should also dredge up less carbon from the deep ocean that ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

A team of researchers reconstructed this critical ocean circulation system — called ... “Without that transport of heat from the atmosphere and the ocean, the band of hospitable latitudes ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

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

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

One of Scripps's longest-running data centers, serving reference-quality hydrographic ocean data to an international community for over 20 years The Global Ocean Biogeochemical float program supports ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a system of ocean currents that ... the "sea-air heat flux," which simulates the exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere. Should the ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth ...