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The Gulf Stream stopped pumping nutrients during the last ice age — and the same could be happening now
Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ancient ocean conditions, scientists think they can forecast changes over the next century.
Sleeping subduction zone could awaken and form a new 'Ring of Fire' that swallows the Atlantic Ocean
A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of Fire."
Every 2.4 million years, Mars tugs on Earth so hard it changes the ocean floor
A new geological study suggests that Mars' gravitational field pulls the Earth closer to the sun over cycles lasting millions of years, warming our climate.
'More unzipping of the landscape': Arctic permafrost could crumble into rivers, unleashing devastating feedback loop
Permafrost thaw could result in new rivers forming across the Arctic, potentially unleashing 35 million car journeys' worth of carbon every year.
'We are approaching the tipping point': Marker for the collapse of key Atlantic current discovered
A vital Atlantic current that includes the Gulf Stream and keeps our climate in check may be giving off a warning sign of collapse.
Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea
Researchers have discovered a 33,000-foot-wide (10 kilometers) underwater canyon that was carved out of the Mediterranean seabed shortly before the sea dried up around 6 million years ago.
City-size seamount triple the height of world's tallest building discovered via gravitational anomalies
Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor.
World's largest deep-sea coral reef found lurking beneath the Gulf Stream 'right on the doorstep' of US coast
A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline.
