An ocean of gyres. The surface flow in the North Atlantic consists of three large gyres. Far south, in the subtropical gyre, the water follows the Gulf Stream northward in a narrow, concentrated band.

Seafarers have known about the Gulf Stream—the Atlantic Ocean's western boundary current—for more than 500 years. By the ...

New research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers the first conclusive evidence that the Gulf Stream has weakened. The powerful ocean current off the East Coast influences regional ...

The ocean current starts near Florida and threads a belt of warm water along the U.S. East Coast and Canada before crossing the Atlantic to ... Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, ...

A new study published today in Nature Climate Change now documents that over the past 20 years, the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean as a whole and has shifted towards the coast ...

Gulf Stream flow is shown on July 25, 2023. A new study published in the journal Nature Communications is raising alarms about the potential collapse of the current system that moderates the ...

A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the ...

Could climate change cause the collapse of a critical ocean current that influences everything from sea levels in South Florida to monsoons in the Pacific and temperatures in Europe? On Tuesday ...

New research warns that the collapse of air currents intertwined with the Gulf Stream could happen as soon as 2025, leaving "severe impacts on the climate in the North Atlantic region." ...

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 ...