Study: Gulf Stream slower than ever before
Potsdam, Germany (UPI) Mar 23, 2015 - The Gulf Stream is the weakest it's been in the last 1,000 years. And as glacier melt in the Arctic continues to accelerate, the foot of the Atlantic's most powerful ocean current keeps pressing harder and harder on the brake pedal. A team of researchers recently analyzed an exhaustive catalog of geologic samples - including ice cores, tree rings and coral, as well as ocean and lake se ... more

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