The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's ...

A zone in the North Atlantic has puzzled scientists for decades. This stretch of water is strangely colder than its ...

A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic ... with the United Kingdom to monitor changes in the North Atlantic. Knowing that scientists had been studying ...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this week. The National ...

The AMOC moves warm, salty surface-ocean water from the subtropics northward to higher latitudes above 40°N in the subpolar North Atlantic, where heat loss to the atmosphere allows it to cool ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current in the Arctic Ocean ... and excess freshwater in the region would travel southwards into the North Atlantic. There, it could ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic ... may be altering ocean currents, carrying sargassum ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new study. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with ...

As ocean currents slow, the amount of salt reaching the North Atlantic may decrease, making it harder for already-diluted surface waters to sink. "When you have a strong AMOC, it draws in salty ...