A big gulf in ocean science threatens to sink the climate change fight

by ARKANSAS DIGITAL NEWS


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An Argo float being deployed to collect marine information, as part of the Argo programme.

Humanity has a blind spot when it comes to the role of the ocean in climate change. That is in part because, as land-dwellers, we naturally tend to focus most on terra firma. But it is also because we know little about what is happening below the surface of the ocean at any moment due to a severe lack of observations there.

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