Scientists reconstruct history of world's most powerful ocean current over last 5.3 million years and its link to global climate
India, March 28 -- Antarctic Circumpolar Current could grow stronger due to human-caused climate change, accelerate melting of Antarctic ice
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An ocean current that connects the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans has been speeding up in recent decades with a warming climate. A new study that looked at its speed over the last 5.3 million years has found that it responds to the global climate by picking up pace or slowing down, with far-reaching consequences.
The findings, published in journal Nature , suggested that the current speeding of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) does not bode well for the stability of Antarctica's ice sheets, which are already losing mass at an average rate of about 150 billio...
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