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Earth’s ocean currents are crucial to the stability of nearly every ecosystem, playing a major role in transporting heat, sequestering carbon, and driving precipitation patterns. However, as climate change melts icecaps and warms surface waters, these currents begin to alter and weaken, threatening the stability of countless systems. There are …

Check out America Outdoors: Understory at https://youtu.be/s-R1p89zHnk PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateTerra. A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This …