The North American Gulf Stream as illustrated with the ECCO model. Download this visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Credit: Greg Shirah/NASA’s Scientific Visualization
Credit: CC0 Public Domain At a dire point in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, some say hope is springing from an unlikely place: the state
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world’s strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has
Schematic and analysis method for AMOC upwelling pathways. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08544-0 The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a major transporter of heat to the
Major oxide geochemical analysis of ice and marine sediment core tephra shards analyzed that correlate with LCY ash. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI:
Visualization of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema
The Walker circulation in December-February during El Niño events. Colors represent sea surface temperature anomalies (blue is cool, orange is warm). Anomalous ocean warming in
(a) SST from AMSR-2 on 16 June 2023. The green dots indicate the path of the cyclone Biparjoy (as obtained from IMD, 2023). (b) Time series of
Location of the study area and its elevation and land cover map. The black points represent the SNOTEL soil moisture network sites and the blue
On its own, Earth would shift toward another ice age in about 10,000 years, scientists say. But humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions may have radically shifted
