Climate Change Is Weakening a Crucial Ocean Current

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By Eric Betz
Apr 11, 2018 5:10 PMMay 21, 2019 5:45 PM
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New research indicates the Atlantic Ocean currents are getting weaker. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)

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