The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

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

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

One of the ocean's saltiest regions has become 30 per cent less salty - sparking fears the Gulf Stream could be inching closer to a catastrophic collapse.

Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.

In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear to be plants. Each coral polyp houses microscopic algae that convert ...

At the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, far from research stations and tourist routes, a small team collected seawater in conditions that are not easi.

The Atlantic Ocean's 'conveyer belt' might be slowing down - and scientists are rushing to figure out why.

Ten years after the Paris Agreement took effect, newly released climate datasets show the world warming at an accelerating ...

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain ...