Dear friends, “IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined.” Those aren’t my words. They’re from an excellent piece my colleagues published in 2021, about a hugely important system of ocean currents that scientists have given an exceptionally uncharismatic name: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
I was tickled to see a breaking news alert for your article earlier this week.