The sea just south of Greenland has remained relatively cool compared with the rest of the North Atlantic.
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- Is the Atlantic Ocean's great conveyer belt really slowing ... (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/climate/cold-blob-atlantic-amoc-ocean-circulation (cnn.com)
- https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/06/20/strange-atlantic-cold-spot-traced-ocean-slowdown (news.ucr.edu)
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cold-blob-may-signal-current-decline (sciencenews.org)
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