The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Climate change is weakening a key ocean current to the point of collapse, according to a new study. As shell layers provide an annual record of ocean conditions, scientists were able to study records ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

A key Atlantic current could be pushed to the brink of collapse within decades, supposedly ushering in a new ice age and dramatically raising sea levels, climate scientists have claimed in a ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

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 ...