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    North Atlantic cold-water sink returns to life

    Convective mixing resumes after a decade due to massive loss of Arctic ice.

    North Atlantic overturningNorth Atlantic overturning — back with a vengeance?Nature


    Scientists have found evidence that convective mixing in the North Atlantic, a mechanism that fuels ocean circulation and affects Earth's climate, has returned after a decade of near stagnation – thanks, perhaps, to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007
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