Ocean currents - the North Atlantic Drift (or Gulf Stream ... This results in milder winter temperatures in the west of the UK. Air pressure - the UK lies in a zone of low pressure.

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

The nearest ocean to the ... all over the world. The UK would be much colder if it wasn’t warmed by water that travels from the Caribbean - called the North Atlantic Drift, or the Gulf Stream.

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

A massive research project will investigate the role of icebergs in driving melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a process that could trigger a catastrophic collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturn ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic ... may be altering ocean currents, carrying sargassum ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep water in the Subtropical North Atlantic. The results suggest that warmer ...

A new University of Miami study looked at 40 years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep ...

The study, titled "Deep ocean cooling and freshening from Subpolar North Atlantic reaches Subtropics at 26.5°N," was published March 26, 2025, in the journal Nature Communications, Earth ...