Is a key ocean current system slowing down? A new study adds to the debate
A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...
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The Atlantic Ocean may start shrinking
The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... zone that is now below the Gibraltar Arc is dormant but will spread inside the Atlantic in the next 20 million years," which is relatively soon when ...
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The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse
Experts have long known that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — the system of ocean currents that transports heat and salt between the southern and northern hemispheres ...
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Microplastic in Atlantic Ocean 'could weigh 21 million tonnes'
There are 12-21 million tonnes of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found. A study, led by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, scooped through layers of the ...