CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Atmospheric measurements made at Earth’s geographic poles provide a convenient way of validating and calibrating global circulation models. Such measurements also might provide some ...

Climate change brings Earth’s tipping points closer to collapse, threatening to unleash devastating, permanent environmental ...

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery ...

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 ...

Global scientists warn that humanity is on the verge of crossing irreversible climate thresholds, with coral reefs already at their tipping point and polar ice sheets possibly beyond recovery. The ...

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both ...

Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Internal Waves (JUNE 2012), pp. 20-29 (10 pages) ABSTRACT. Ocean tides, and the atmospherically forced oceanic general circulation and its associated ...