Atlantic Ocean current could collapse soon. How you may endure dramatic weather changes. ... it could bring about an ice age in Europe and sea-level rise in cities such as Boston and New York, ...

Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age, a new study suggests. The ...

The Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down, according to a new study led by a University of Maryland researcher. Specifically, the study found the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

image: Ocean quahog clam view more . Credit: Paul Kay. Scientists have used centuries-old clam shells to see how the North Atlantic climate system reached a "tipping point" before the Little Ice Age.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

A major current that runs the length of the Atlantic Ocean and plays an important role in the planet's climate may be approaching a tipping point that would lead to its collapse, researchers have ...

Iceberg "A23a," which is five times bigger than New York City, is heading towards the southern Atlantic Ocean after being stuck for almost four decades.

Melting that began with the Ice Age’s wane is ongoing, making the oceans minutely fresher. And in the Atlantic Ocean, eelgrass is still trying to regain the genetic diversity it lost when ice ...

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.