salty surface-ocean water from the subtropics northward to higher latitudes above 40°N in the subpolar North Atlantic, where heat loss to the atmosphere allows it to cool, become denser and sink, ...

A new University of Miami study looked at forty years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep ...

E urope is warmed by heat from ocean currents, which move water from the warm tropics to the colder North Atlantic. Once the warm, salty waters from the tropics reach the polar region, they cool ...

Ocean currents - the North Atlantic Drift (or Gulf Stream) ocean current flows northwards across the Atlantic Ocean, bringing warm water from the Gulf of Mexico. This results in milder winter ...

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic ... may be altering ocean currents, carrying sargassum ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to research from the ...

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. It's the scenario ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk ... and the German Alfred Wegener Institute. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with freshwater, which would weaken the ...