The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of ...

The research is another sign that climate heating caused mainly by fossil fuel pollution is pushing the climate toward ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is projected to weaken the world’s most powerful ocean current by 20 percent in the next quarter century, an international team of scientists concluded in a ...

In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” the Atlantic Ocean’s main current system is disrupted and sets off a chain of disastrous events from monster storms to an Ice Age across the northern hemisphere.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Using as tiny climate sensors the miniscule bodies of hard-shelled protozoa deposited on the sea floor over millennia, an international research team has made a startling discovery off the coast of ...

Even with net-negative emissions, the Southern Ocean’s long memory can send up a century-long heat pulse that slows recovery.

Ocean color satellites provide essential insights into water quality and ecosystem dynamics by estimating chlorophyll, ...