Shifts in the Gulf Stream could help researchers predict the human-driven failure of a huge system of ocean currents known as ...

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Shifts in the Gulf Stream could help researchers predict the human-driven failure of a huge system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.