A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat

Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of ...

Iceland sees security risk, existential threat in Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an ...
New Scientist on MSN

Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current

Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the ...
Grist

As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two ...
WUSA

Atlantic current collapse: New study shows the potentially catastrophic scenario is unlikely anytime soon

WASHINGTON — The nightmare scenario of Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing, with weather running amok and putting Europe in a deep freeze, looks unlikely this century, a new study concludes. It's the ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Currents can warm, cool climates

Oceans are highly efficient storers of heat. They transport warm or cool water around the earth and have a great impact on climate. Ocean currents are mainly caused by prevailing winds. Water ...
Townhall

Fracturing Thwaites Ice-Shelf — Just a Normal Function of Nature

In case you’ve lost sleep worrying about the latest reports of melting ice in Antarctica, go back to bed and enjoy a good snooze. There’s nothing to the story. Here’s why. University of California, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Exquisite, rarely seen purple sea snails ride warm currents to San Diego

A tiny, exquisite group of sea creatures rarely seen by humans has made a brief return to San Diego. One of the few people deeply familiar with the species found them while walking her dog at La Jolla ...