A new scientific study suggests that the combination of increasing water temperatures and melting glaciers poses a significant threat to a major ocean current. The study, published Tuesday in the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study from researchers in Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the U.K. cautions that changes from our overheating planet on a major ...

Even a small slowdown to one of Earth's major ocean currents could nearly halve the rainfall over parts of the planet's rainforests, fueling droughts that could accelerate climate change, a new study ...

For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-term ...

While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones -- called submesoscale eddies -- are notoriously difficult to detect. These currents, which range from several kilometers ...

In this first glimpse of the "Sea Camp" series from NPR's Short Wave podcast, hear how climate change will significantly shift three-quarters of the ocean's surface currents by the end of the century.

A huge stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean is rapidly losing its salt, and scientists warn this subtle shift could quietly disrupt global ocean currents and marine life in unexpected ways.