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Fresh news from the Atlantic

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The Atlantic overturning circulation plays a key role in large-scale climate but how it varies is not well known. Now a study proposes that the weakening it may have experienced in the late 1970s is unprecedented over the last millennium.

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  1. Didier Swingedouw is at the Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux CNRS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 33615 Pessac, France,

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Swingedouw, D. Fresh news from the Atlantic. Nature Clim Change 5, 411–412 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2626

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