And the Arctic is indeed warming rapidly - at three ... Riverside suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could help ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Efforts such as the Synoptic Arctic Survey are studying the Arctic Ocean to better understand ocean currents, in the hope of allowing scientists to better predict future changes. One way to track ...

The Arctic’s cold weather slows down the breakdown of toxic chemicals once they’re brought north by ocean currents. (Ekaterina Anisimova/AFP via Getty Images) A recent study has found that ...

New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to ...

Ice cores gathered across the Arctic Ocean reveal microplastics at ... Their "plastic fingerprint" suggests they were carried on ocean currents from the huge garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean ...

Another concern among scientists is that melting sea-ice is affecting a major ocean current in the Arctic - the Beaufort Gyre. Freshwater is less dense than salty seawater. The researchers said a ...

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...

Ice melting in the Arctic triggered a freeze in Europe more ... a warming world changed crucial ocean currents and meant that Europe cooled rapidly. However, the lead author behind the study ...

More than 100,000 years ago, global temperatures soared and the Arctic ice melted to plunge Europe into a deep freeze, a new study has indicated. The research, from the iC3 Polar Research Hub, showed ...