Ocean currents are important because they transport water and nutrients in addition to controlling the Earth’s climate. While currents on the ocean’s surface are fairly easy to measure and ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Deep water circulation kicks off at the polar extremes. In the southern Antarctic seas, freezing seawater relinquishes its salt, causing the water around it to grow heavy. Cold as ice and far saltier ...

Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse, study finds. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 03 / 230330102327.htm ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

The deep-water flows which drive ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050, a team of Australian scientists says. The currents carry vital heat, oxygen, carbon and nutrients around the globe.

It predicts a 42 percent decline in deep-water formation in the Southern Ocean by 2050. This is more than twice the 19 percent they predict for an equivalent event in the North Atlantic.

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice threatens to dramatically slow deep-water currents in the world’s oceans, scientists say, impacting the spread of fresh water, oxygen and life-sustaining nutrients for ...

Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast implications for the global climate and for marine life, a new study warns.

Cold water that sinks near Antarctica drives the deepest flow of the overturning circulation—a network of ... This deep ocean current has remained in a relatively stable state for ...

Modelling the deep ocean About 250 trillion tonnes of cold, salty, oxygen-rich water sinks near Antarctica each year. This water then spreads northwards and carries oxygen into the deep Indian ...