The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

IPC Global Program Manager Jose Lopez, in response to questions about the warning system’s shortcomings, said the IPC will now require that its technical experts take over government-headed ...

The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns ... over 100,000 years ago, global temperatures were warmer than present, ice volumes were smaller ...

As a part of the global conveyor belt – a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity – it also carries nutrients necessary to sustain ocean life.

The first is our local weather history, what’s happened in our past. The second is changes in global circulation patterns. By this I mean El Nino and La Nina, which are fluctuations in the ocean ...

Global critics of the international financial architecture say the system is broken. As Brazilian President Lula da Silva said today addressing the United Nations General Assembly, it’s become ...