New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden ...

It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team studying the current toils to bring clarity.

The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate ...

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...

A new scientific study suggests that the combination of increasing water temperatures and melting glaciers poses a significant threat to a major ocean current. The study, published Tuesday in the ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Melting ice sheets in ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...