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The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing
It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific ... the Kuroshio Current near Japan, and the Agulhas Current off the coast of South Africa – the Antarctic Circumpolar ...
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Earth’s Strongest Ocean Current Is Failing—And the Consequences Could Be Catastrophic
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the strongest ocean current on Earth, is rapidly weakening due to the accelerating ...
First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...
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Detection of a Deep Boundary Current in the Western South Pacific
“after passing south of New Zealand, flows northward into the Pacific Ocean as a narrow western boundary current along the Tonga–Kermadec Trench”. It seems surprising that the source water ...
ZME Science on MSN3d
Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of ocean
Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often endemic wildlife. Isolated for millions of years, the islands have given rise to ...
Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound
Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...