The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.

By James Temple On a Saturday morning in December of 2020, the RRS Discovery floated in calm waters just east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the massive undersea mountain range that runs from the Arctic nearly to the Antarctic. The team onboard the research vessel, mostly from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, used an acoustic signaling system to trigger theContinue reading “The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.”