How the Atlantic Ocean circulation would change as it slowed. Credit: IPCC 6th Assessment Report When people think about the risks of climate change, the idea of abrupt changes is pretty scary. Movies ...

Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the past 12,000 years. The international ...

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The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...