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A large cold patch nicknamed the 'cold blob' south of Greenland is cooling the North Atlantic by about 2°F since 1900, suggesting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening due to warming and fresh water from melting ice; a significant slowdown or collapse could raise U.S. East Coast sea levels, bring colder European winters, and trigger droughts in Africa.
The crew of an anti-whaling ship, captained by the co-founder of Greenpeace, have welcomed the temporary suspension of hunting of fin whales in Iceland's waters over animal rights concerns. The former Scottish Fisheries vessel had travelled to the North Atlantic Ocean to attempt to stop whaling operations. Most countries in the world agreed to a ban on commercial whaling in 1986 after some species of whales were driven almost to extinction, but Iceland, Norway and Japan were among those who refused.
The U.S. Coast Guard is providing an update on the search for a submarine that went missing while taking five people to the wreckage of the Titanic. A Canadian search plane detected noises underwater in the search area, and crews were focused on finding the origin of the sounds. The sub's disappearance on Sunday has spurred a massive response from the U.S. and Canada as search crews rush to find the missing group in the north Atlantic Ocean.
A submersible carrying five people to explore the Titanic wreckage is still missing despite a massive search operation by US and Canadian authorities. The submersible lost contact with its support ship, leaving the people on board with only enough oxygen for 3 to 4 days. The depth of the area where they went missing could pose a challenge, and the search is complicated by its remote location, local weather conditions, and unknowns like the state of the submersible and whether it has working equipment like acoustic pingers that can be detected by search teams.
A tropical depression is likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean in the next 48 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center. The weather pattern, known as Invest Area 92L, is currently a tropical wave producing showers and thunderstorms southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. The system has an 80% chance of developing over the next 48 hours and 90% over the next seven days as it moves westward over the Atlantic Ocean.