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Credit: Michele Rebesco, 2006.

Warmer, saltier polar water could change global ocean currents

Melting ice shelves are changing the ocean’s chemistry at the South Pole and the result could be a change in global currents and increased glacial melt, according to scientists who are creating maps to feed into climate change models.  

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