Oceans are a key part of Earth’s climate system, responsible for transporting heat and nutrients around the planet. It is therefore important to understand how oceans will respond to future climate ...

The Gulf Stream transport of water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with 99% certainty that this weakening is more than expected from random chance, according ...

The Gulf Stream system plays an important role in climate. The weakening of this system that has been observed over the last two decades is therefore a cause for concern and much debate. The question ...

The Atlantic’s great conveyor belt of heat and salt, long treated as a background feature of the climate system, is suddenly at the center of an urgent scientific argument. A growing body of research ...