A study published in PNAS found that continued infusion of freshwater ice melt into the ocean could throw a global ocean climate circulation system off balance. (Courtesy of TiPES/HP) (CN) --- A ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean current system that transports heat from the tropics to the ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean ...

The study is “yet another example of the unanticipated ways that our greenhouse gas emissions is affecting global processes.” But the most terrifying thing about the abyssal ocean may be the fact that ...

It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean circulation system and how it will respond as the world heats up. A doomsday scenario involving the collapse of the ...

In Bergen, Maaike Zwier analyzed pollen in sediment cores from lakes on Kerguelen Islands and South Georgia. In this way, she can say something about the local climate going back almost 12,000 years.

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...