How are ocean currents caused, and how do they affect climate? These questions were hotly debated in the nineteenth century. Some argued that water is simply pushed along by the wind; others ...

Thermohaline circulation, the large-scale movement of surface water through the world’s ocean basins, in latitudes near the poles is sensitive to temperature but even more so to salinity, so the ...

A direct link has been shown between the greatest increase in Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and the onset of a sudden icehouse. The onset of sudden icehouse conditions during the Mid Ordovician was ...

If global warming shuts down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean, the result could be catastrophic climate change. The environmental effects, models indicate, depend upon whether ...

Scientists are keenly aware that global ocean circulation continues to slow down and warning signs are beginning to point to what the world will look like in the decades to come. Researchers at the ...

Later this century, rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere will slow the ocean currents that bring warm waters to the North Atlantic, thereby affecting that region’s climate, ...

Scientists have revealed an ominous climate calculation, based on greenhouse gas emissions, which predicts the Atlantic Ocean’s current will collapse around 2060 if emissions persist, according to ...

Science Daily is reporting that just because they teach you something in graduate school doesn’t make it right. A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic ...

Geocolor satellite image of T.S. Bret. Thursday morning is the earliest projected time for tropical storm force winds for the Lesser Antilles, and Friday morning for Puerto Rico. Source - National ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — In this episode, the show starts late... as Mindi holds everyone up to get her air compressor back in the trunk of her overworked Toyota Camry! Eventually the crew settles in to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- If global warming shuts down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean, the result could be catastrophic climate change. The environmental effects, models indicate, ...