One of those tipping points relates to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or the AMOC, a giant oceanic ‘conveyor belt’ that redistributes heat around the planet. The exact ...

For decades, scientists have turned to the Labrador Sea to understand how ocean processes there may be affecting the strength of a massive oceanic conveyor belt known as the Atlantic Meridional ...

Any given parcel of water takes a thousand years to complete this conveyor belt ride. The whole process is known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. In the last twenty years or ...

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A vital Atlantic current that includes the Gulf Stream ... travels back south and picks up heat again, restarting the conveyor belt. (The Gulf Stream is part of this belt.) This release of heat ...

Washington (AFP) – A US dive team has discovered the wreck of a French steamship, Le Lyonnais, that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1856 after a "hit-and-run" collision with an American sailing ...

The memorial to Captain North in Doncaster Minster. As the last resting place of those who died, the wreck of the Atlantic Conveyor is a designated protected war grave. The ship was the first ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean. This ...