From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that's crucial for regulating the world's weather and ecosystems might be more stable against climate change than previously thought, according to a new ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC for short, comprises an enormous system of currents that carries water and nutrients across the world and plays a large part in stabilizing ...

A vital ocean current that transports warm water to the North Atlantic is weakening faster than previously thought, according to models that simulate the impact of meltwater from the Greenland ice ...

New research shows ocean currents like the AMOC are weakening, causing coastal flooding in the U.S. Northeast to double since 2005. Sea level rise and currents pose growing infrastructure risks. The ...

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth's ...

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? ... On Google Maps it gets three stars: ... The mega-current hauls warm, salty surface water from the tropics near the Americas up to northern Europe.

By Angela Dewan and Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have ...

WASHINGTON — The nightmare scenario of Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing, with weather running amok and putting Europe in a deep freeze, looks unlikely this century, a new study concludes. It's ...