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Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point


An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present.

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