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'The program has contributed massively to our understanding of Earth's climate history'

<p style="text-align:start"><em>The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica&rsquo;s ice sheets. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have now used sediments taken from the South Pacific to reconstruct the flow speed in the last 5.3 million years. Their data show that during glacial periods, the current slowed; during interglacials, it accelerated. Consequen...

In the heart of the Mediterranean, beneath the waters surrounding the Greek island of Santorini, scientists have made a startling discovery. They have uncovered the remnants of a...

A 500-foot-thick layer of pumice rock on the Mediterranean seabed indicates Santorini volcano ejected 15 times more material than Hunga-Tonga during a previously unknown eruption.