An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

The potential collapse of a key Atlantic ocean current − due to human-caused climate change − is in the news again. You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a scarier scenario than what's going on now ...

Innovators who are working on ways to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to fight climate change are having a tough ...

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that a major Atlantic Ocean current system tied to global climate is weakening. The ...

A remote island between Australia and Antarctica is showing signs of a dramatic climate transformation. Scientists found ...

As Earth warms due to climate change, oceans are heating up, becoming more acidic, and losing oxygen. These changes threaten marine life, food webs, and global fisheries. Scientists agree that cutting ...

The ocean is storing an estimated 91 percent of the excess heat energy trapped in the Earth's climate system by excess greenhouse gases. This staggering statistic comes from NOAA's latest climate data ...

Research has shown that severe El Niño events can have lasting effects on Earth’s systems—potentially locking the global climate into a warmer regime.