The Atlantic Ocean is hiding a climate threat so serious that Iceland has already treated it as a national risk. Scientists ...

The Gulf Stream has been slowly drifting north near Cape Hatteras — and scientists say that movement is a hidden warning ...

A part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets ...

Ocean currents are not just horizontal motions that flow from side to side. There are also vertical currents that act like ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is what to do about it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ocean currents contain kinetic energy that can be converted to electrical power using turbines. This is similar to offshore wind ...

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest ...

Hidden Southern Ocean currents plunge more than half a mile deep and help power Antarctica's vast carbon sink, a new ...

There’s a big cold spot in the North Atlantic Ocean, and scientists think they know why.

Scientists say there is a high chance that key Atlantic Ocean currents will weaken over the coming decades due to climate change — but whether they have already slowed is hotly debated. Now, a new ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...