A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use of ...

The extreme importance of the AMOC is being threatened by greenhouse gas emissions, a driving force in global warming. Global warming would be a direct contributor to an AMOC collapse. If this is not ...

Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation ...

Ocean currents are playing a large part in collapsing Antarctic ice shelves, a new study has revealed. Meandering currents and the ocean floor cause a welling up of warm water to shallower depths ...

These warm currents lap against the sides of the Thwaites, for example, melting away the thick ice that keeps the shelf's edge from collapsing.

She said the snails, which are kept afloat by a raft of air bubbles, may have been carried here in late June, when ocean ...

Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more ...

When the current is strong, it makes the water closer to shore cooler. So here's what that means for hurricane season: ...

Implementing current conditional NDCs would deliver up to 2.8 degrees C of warming, the report titled: “The Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air…please!” added.