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

Professor James Hansen has warned that climate change could affect the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), a system ... would be disastrous for the rest of the world. The AMOC is a ...

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 ...

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

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now ...

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

The world’s oceans have taken up more than 90% of the extra ... Heat absorbed at the surface is redistributed both horizontally and vertically by ocean circulation. As a result, the ocean is warming ...