The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of currents responsible for shuttling warm water ...

Salt water in the oceans is not the same everywhere; There are water layers that have different salinities and temperatures. The phenomenon of thermohaline circulation – which results from the ...

Scientists are increasingly convinced that the Atlantic’s great conveyor belt of heat and salt is edging toward a critical threshold, one that could reshape weather, food security and sea levels for ...

Iceland has classified the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation as a national security and ...

Climate change is warming Europe, but scientists are also studying whether a weakened Atlantic current could make Britain colder, with Laurie Laybourne, director of the Strategic Climate Risks ...

Researcher Léon Chafik aboard an oceanographic expedition at the Greenland–Scotland Ridge, with a CTD rosette in the background used to measure temperature, salinity, and other water properties ...

A new study indicates that the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — which would be a catastrophic climate event — can no longer be considered an unlikely scenario. Scientists ...

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RIT Croatia students are proudly organizing the AMOC Congress, a student-led conference dedicated to climate change awareness, education, and action. The event will take place on Saturday, December 6, ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after observing that the Atlantic Ocean has entered a phase of exceptionally rapid sea ...