The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of ...

The research is another sign that climate heating caused mainly by fossil fuel pollution is pushing the climate toward ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is projected to weaken the world’s most powerful ocean current by 20 percent in the next quarter century, an international team of scientists concluded in a ...

Using as tiny climate sensors the miniscule bodies of hard-shelled protozoa deposited on the sea floor over millennia, an international research team has made a startling discovery off the coast of ...

The calendar says October, but it’s about to feel more like August across a stretch of central states. From areas around Omaha and Minneapolis to Chicago and Detroit, temperatures will soar well into ...

Two marine heat waves occurring simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean are being linked to a forecast for record warm temperatures this weekend. It might be the first full weekend of October, but for ...