A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

The study confirms that the North Atlantic cold patch is due to a weakening ocean current system, not aerosols or wind ...

Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has ...

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists are doing new research on the Hydrothermal Field, an undersea world that may hold the ...

The anomaly, located just south of Greenland, is — perhaps counterintuitively — called the North Atlantic Warming Hole, and ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first ...

A European Space Agency-led effort is helping marine scientists identify and characterize the most biologically vulnerable ...