Iceland has quietly taken a historic step, issuing its first national security alert tied not to war or terrorism but to the ...

The first month of the new year will be long and variable, marked by the clash between mild Atlantic currents and cold polar ...

Climate change is warming Europe, but scientists are also studying whether a weakened Atlantic current could make Britain colder, with Laurie Laybourne, director of the Strategic Climate Risks ...

Something in the Atlantic is shifting, though it is not easy to see from the surface. There are no dramatic waves or sudden storms to mark it out. Instead, the change is slow and buried deep in the ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Melting ice sheets in ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major oceanic current determining global climate that is showing signs of weakening. It transports warmer waters northwards in the Atlantic ...