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Earth is racing toward climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds


Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

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