But now, with the tongue gone due the collision, scientists fear it could trigger changes to the behavior of a major part of global ocean circulation patterns ... ice tongue. A Japanese-led ...

El Niño is a climate pattern characterized by the warming of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean caused by the weakening ... Japan's winter was colder than average. "Japanese winters are also ...

The implications of their results, published today in Nature, are significant because regional sea level, affecting coastal populations around the world, depends on patterns of ocean warming.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a massive system of ocean currents, helps regulate global weather patterns by transporting warm water north and cold water south.

The catastrophe, which killed 18,000 people and created one of the worst nuclear crises in history, also swept at least 289 Japanese species across the Pacific Ocean who hitched a ride on some ...