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Ben Turner

Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered'

A view of hurricanes forming over the Atlantic Ocean, created by assembling images acquired on Sept. 6, 2017 by NASA's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite.

A vital ocean current system that helps regulate the Northern Hemisphere's climate could collapse anytime from 2025 and unleash climate chaos, a controversial new study warns. 

The Atlantic Meridional Ocean Current (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, governs the climate by bringing warm, tropical waters north and cold water south.

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