Scientists have succeeded in using weather satellites to track ocean currents in real time with an unprecedented level of detail.

The Atlantic’s great conveyor belt of heat and salt, long treated as a background feature of the climate system, is suddenly at the center of an urgent scientific argument. A growing body of research ...

A gradual northward shift in the Gulf Stream has provided more evidence that the system of currents that keeps Europe warm is weakening. What’s more, modelling suggests that any abrupt shift in the ...