About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists call Snowball Earth. New research now points to an overlooked accomplice in ...

Changes in the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current in the Atlantic, could serve as an early warning of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

The world's oceans are shifting beneath us in ways that researchers say have no real precedent in the modern record. The Copernicus Ocean State Report 9, authored by a team led by K. von Schuckmann ...

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