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A buildup of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean could lead to a disruption of the gulf stream, leading to cooler winters in Europe.

Narwhals don't go to graduate school, and they're not much use as grant-writers. But they're able to do a few things oceanographers find challenging�such as dive to depths of nearly six thousand feet beneath the ice of Baffin Bay in winter. So scientists have enlisted them in gathering climate-change data in the Greenland Current.