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There is only one sea on Earth that touches no land, and its borders don’t truly exist

Far out in the North Atlantic, roughly 590 miles east of Florida, a sprawling patch of water drifts in slow rotation. It ...
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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

A massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving extremely strangely, possibly because it is approaching a tipping point, a new analysis of clam shells shows. The North ...

Atlantic current system could be weakening faster than expected

The Atlantic current system, or more formally the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is more likely to ...
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Disruption of ocean currents

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...