The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...
CH: One way of thinking about what drives this major ocean current is differences in ocean density. You have this really important zone in the North Atlantic where the waters sink because the surface ...
The rate of sea surface temperature warming has risen from 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.06 degrees Celsius) per decade in the 1980s to 0.5 F (0.27 C) per decade today. The team's modeling suggests ...
Sea surface temperatures were the highest on record (again) for the month of December across the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean. So meteorologist Chris Merchant and colleagues used satellite data ...
Snow and cold produced slushy waters along the Maine shoreline on Wednesday morning, January 29, as the National Weather Service (NWS) reported snowfall of up to 5 inches in the state. Footage filmed ...
Authorities believe a climate-change-driven marine heatwave is the most likely cause ... surface. Two more missions will be conducted over the next month to get a clearer picture of sub-surface ...
The Role of the AMOC in Earth’s Climate The AMOC is part of a global network of interconnected currents that drive the movement of heat ... To reconstruct the AMOC, researchers looked at air-sea heat ...
researchers announced that they had discovered strange nodules 13,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface that acted like natural batteries. These nodules possess an electrical charge that enables ...