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The bodies of 7 spinner dolphins were washed ashore at fishing hamlets in Tamil Nadu's coasts on Tuesday. On Monday, 5 spinner dolphins were found dead in the same area.Correctly speaking (going by both reports) that's 14 deaths in 5 days.
In total, about 14 dolphins have been found dead in the last 3 days, according to a Deccan Chronicle report. Three dolphins were found at Venapurusham Kuppam in Mamallapuram and Sadras Kuppam, Uyyali Kuppam, Nainar Kuppam and Cuddalore Chinna Kuppam each saw one body washing ashore, according to the report.
The Beaufort Gyre, a key Arctic Ocean current, is acting strangely. Scientists say it may be on the verge of discharging a huge amount of ice and cold freshwater that could kick off a period of lower temperatures in northern Europe.For millennia, the Beaufort Gyre - a massive wind-driven current in the Arctic Ocean - has been regulating climate and sea ice formation at the top of the world. Like a giant spinning top, the gyre corrals vast amounts of sea ice. Trapped in this clockwise swirl, the ice has historically had more time to thicken than it generally does in other parts of the Arctic Ocean, where currents such as the Trans Polar Drift transport the ice into the warmer north Atlantic more rapidly. In this way, the Beaufort Gyre - located north of Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory - has helped create the abundant layers of sea ice that, until recently, covered large parts of the Arctic Ocean year-round.
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