A massive vortex of ocean water encircling Antarctica, a swirling volume 100-times larger than all the world's rivers combined, is getting faster due to . At least, that's the finding a new study that examined the past 5.3 million years of this polar ocean vortex's behavior, using sediment cores samples take from Earth's roughest and most remote waters.As one co-author of the new research, a geochemist at Columbia University, put it, 'This is the mightiest and fastest current on the planet.'
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