Researchers taking a sediment core from the Florida Straits. (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers taking a sediment core from the Florida Straits.

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Georgia Tech researchers have finished investigating how the prehistoric weakening of a major ocean current led to a decline in ocean nutrients and negative impacts on North Atlantic ocean life. The results support predictions about how our oceans might react to a changing climate — and what that means for ocean life.

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Georgia Tech / Jean Lynch-Stieglitz

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