A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

It’s early November on Flakstad Beach and 25 miles an hour winds are whipping plumes of spindrift off enormous Arctic waves. Powerful gusts carry flurries of hail that sting like bullets and the sky ...

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...