The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is often described as the planet’s great conveyor belt, moving warm water north and cold water south to keep regional climates within familiar bounds.

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are sounding the alarm, as a critical Atlantic Ocean current is under existential threat. The result, if things take a ...

Dozens of scientists from 15 countries have warned that climate change is putting one of the earth’s most important ocean currents in danger of collapse. In an open letter earlier this month – they ...

(CNN) — Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much ...

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to ...