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Key Atlantic current is weakening much faster than scientists had predicted

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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) stabilizes climates in the Northern Hemisphere .

The AMOC acts as a planetary conveyor belt, bringing nutrients, oxygen and heat north from tropical waters while moving colder water south.

A new climate model that factors in freshwater melt from Greenland 's ice sheet has suggested that the current could weaken by as much as one-third in the next 15 years .