Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of ...

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

Fresh, cold meltwater likely weakens the current, the team found ... Over time, the deep Southern Ocean will warm as convection brings less cold water from the surface. Meltwater also makes ...