A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

The anomaly, located just south of Greenland, is — perhaps counterintuitively — called the North Atlantic Warming Hole, and it has been stumping scientists for years. Despite the steady warming of ...

For over a century, scientists have noticed something unusual in the North Atlantic Ocean. While most oceans around the globe steadily warm, the region south of Greenland has stubbornly cooled, ...

Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

To distinguish water masses, oceanographers chart the relationship between temperature and salinity across the ocean — two measurements that combine to determine the density of seawater.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. Evaporation is more intense in the Atlantic compared to the Pacific, especially in the tropics and subtropics, which increases its salinity by ...

For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long ...

The AMOC is a long current cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that transports warm water across the globe. ... The Gulf Stream is primarily driven by wind rather than temperature and salinity, ...

By analyzing ocean temperatures and salinity patterns, scientists linked this mysterious cooling to the slowing of a system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

For over a century, scientists have noticed something unusual in the North Atlantic Ocean. While most oceans around the globe steadily warm, the region south of Greenland has stubbornly cooled ...