The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate ...

Scientists are again examining the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the vast ocean system that ...

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Scientists say the collapse of AMOC could plunge Iceland into extreme winter temperatures.

Scientists warn that the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, linked to the Gulf Stream, could trigger severe global disruptions.

A growing body of peer-reviewed research and recent preprints points to statistical warning signs that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the ocean conveyor belt that includes the Gulf ...

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain ...

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus slowing global ocean circulation as a team lead by the Max Planck Institute ...

It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team ...

Sharp changes could result in a cascade of subsystem interactions that would steer the planet toward extreme warming and sea ...