If this huge Atlantic Ocean current collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia - The New Daily

A more La Niña-like state would mean more flooding rains over eastern Australia and worse droughts and bushfire seasons over southwest United States.

Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published in Nature Climate Change, looks at the pr… [+6248 chars]

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