If temperatures keep soaring, scientists fear that AMOC could collapse — and with it, climate patterns across the globe.

EXCLUSIVE: If an Atlantic Ocean system goes into 'irreversible decline' it would spell trouble for Britain's food security, ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

Before a plan like this can be carried out, scientists will need improved data to create a more accurate projection of what ...

The potential collapse of a key Atlantic ocean current − due to human-caused climate change − is in the news again. You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a scarier scenario than what's going on now ...

Scientists have discovered that the weakening of a major Atlantic current could lead to extreme rainfall and severe storms in ...

"The Day After Tomorrow" imagined a world where a critical ocean current suddenly collapsed. New research says it has rapidly changed in the past.

New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.

The ocean current system that keeps winters in London milder than winters in Montreal may be headed for a slowdown far worse than scientists previously projected. A peer-reviewed study published in ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that cleaning up air pollution could contribute to a weakening of ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a major transporter of heat to the north Atlantic and northwestern Europe—is unlikely to collapse this century, according to new research. The ...