Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers reported March 3 ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the ... who found that the transport of ocean water from the surface to the deep may also slow in the future.

Scientists have used one of Australia's most powerful supercomputers to show that melting Antarctic ice sheets could slow the world's strongest ocean currents by flooding it with fresh water.

A new study shows that the world's strongest ocean current could slow by around 20%, as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it. The melting ice sheets would change the ocean's salt content, making it ...

The current also keeps out warm water. So, a slower ACC might allow that water to reach the Antarctic shelf—which would speed up ice melt and further slow the ACC, triggering a “potentially ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current could slow by around 20 per cent, the research found (Representational) The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it ...

The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of "severe" climate consequences.

The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of "severe" climate consequences.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current acts as a kind of “ocean conveyor belt” shifting immense columns of water through the ...