Scientists are closely watching a massive ocean circulation system that helps regulate the planet’s climate. This global current moves heat around the Earth and absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide ...
Scientists Revisit Climate Predictions as Ocean Data Raises New Questions ...
The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meltwater runs across the Greenland ice sheet in rivers. The ice sheet is already losing mass and could soon reach a tipping point ...
Millions of unknown microbial genes discovered in Antarctica’s ocean reveal a hidden ecosystem that may influence carbon cycling and climate.
About 34 million years ago, the Earth’s climate transitioned from a “greenhouse climate” to the “icehouse climate” of today, forming a massive ice sheet on the Antarctic continent. A new study by ...
Changes in the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current in the Atlantic, could serve as an early warning of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a ...
As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change ...