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Published — 29 August 2026 ⏭ New Scientist

Is the ‘cold blob’ a climate warning?

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Over the past 150 years Earth's entire surface has been warming, except for one patch in the North Atlantic, located southeast of Greenland. This so called 'cold blob' could be an indicator of a worrying change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a vast system of ocean currents that help regulate global temperatures and weather. Changes in the AMOC could have devastating impacts on our climate.

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We’ve Been Wrong About Extinction

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In our latest video, we explore the science of extinction, from the disappearance of dinosaurs to the demise of ancient humans, and ask one question: why does anything survive? This reveals that extinction isn't the disaster in the story – extinction is the story. More than 99 per cent of all species that have ever lived are gone, which makes survival the anomaly that nobody has fully explained, until now.

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:54 We’ve Been Wrong About The Dinosaur Extinction
00:30:54 Why Birds Are The Only Surviving Dinosaurs
01:30:33 One Human Species Ruled Earth for 2 Million Years. It Wasn’t Us
01:55:19 We Might Be Wrong About Humanity’s Near Extinction

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