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The watery part of the world dominated our science news coverage this week, beginning with the alarming prediction that a key Atlantic current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, could begin its irreversible collapse in decades. That’s according to a new landmark study, which combined the predictions of 25 climate models to arrive at an …

A Faroese fisherman’s extraordinary encounter with nature has left the scientific community stunned. Hallur Antoniussen was navigating his vessel Saputi through the icy waters near Carbonear when he spotted something unprecedented: a towering black iceberg rising from the North Atlantic. This massive dark formation, perfectly sculpted and gleaming with an obsidian-like surface, challenged everything experts thought they knew about Arctic ice …