new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, which found evidence of the Gulf Stream losing “stability” over the course of the last century.
Should the stream continue to lose strength and eventually collapse, the study’s author warned of “severe impacts on the global climate system.”The stream is essentially part of a larger overall current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a huge river of warm, salty water that originates from the American tropics in Mexico and flows through the upper layers of the Atlantic, eventually passing Newfoundland and Labrador and into the Nordic seas off the coast of Scandinavia and the U.K.