The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate could be weakening.

The Atlantic Ocean current that plays a major role in the world ... open image in gallery A partial view of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), showing the Gulf Stream ...

New research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the ...

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster ...

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, there's a massive current the size of 8,000 Mississippi Rivers. Its role in the Earth's climate is so powerful that it determines weather from the equator to Europe ...

A key current in the wider Atlantic Ocean current system has remained “remarkably stable” over the past four decades, a new analysis suggests. Published in Nature Communications, the study is ...

A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate ... main implications from a societal point of view is how is this going to affect our coastal ...

The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's climate, moving heat from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.