Also, the disruption of ocean circulation could lead to the breakdown of deep ocean currents, affecting marine ecosystems worldwide. These changes threaten the stability of ocean life, impacting ...

filling the deep ocean as it goes. This causes major changes to the density structure of the ocean. It counteracts the influence of ocean warming, leading to an overall slowdown in the current of ...

Surface currents are relatively easy to measure and track. But those in the deep ocean are mostly a mystery. Now, a new study published in Nature Geoscience unveiled the biggest data set to date ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation likely won't completely collapse with global warming, but any weakening could ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

Climate models predict that even under extreme warming, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken but not collapse entirely – although this could still have serious impacts ...

This finding, which is based on studies of rocks located deep beneath the ocean ... the explanation involving altered ocean currents would be more plausible.” Whatever the reason for the anomaly, Koll ...

More fresh water in the Southern Ocean could affect the deep ocean currents and the ocean's ability to absorb carbon. If climate change continues at its current pace, the Southern Ocean will soon ...

This less dense water tends to stay near the surface, getting in the way of the deep ocean currents that the earth needs to distribute heat around the world. This is why changes in how fast glacial ...

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. In recent years ...

these powerful currents beneath the ocean surface carve deep submarine canyons, create huge sediment deposits and can damage submarine cables and pipelines. Although the phenomenon has been known ...