The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre is approaching a 'tipping point' that would have 'major implications for the climate', ...
An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present.
The weak spot, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, was identified in the 19th century and expanded in recent years.
Something strange is happening in the North Atlantic, and researchers say we may be witnessing a slow, yet dangerous, ...
Quahog clams can live for more than 500 years and the layers of their shells can give an unbroken “annual record of ocean conditions,” according to a news release from the University of Exeter.
This month, I will focus on what I believe is the most important driver of climate change away from human behaviour. Read ...
For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...
A Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that melting North American ice sheets were the primary ...
The world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes ...
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...
The world is also rapidly approaching further tipping points as it nears the milestone of 1.5C warming above pre-industrial levels ...
A complex weather dance is underway in the central Atlantic Ocean this week as a pair of developing tropical systems try to get their act together.