Scientists unravel the fast-moving ‘butterfly effect’ of the deep ocean

Scientists unravel the fast-moving ‘butterfly effect’ of the deep ocean Sarah Collins Thu, 07/09/2026 - 10:00 An international research team, led by the University of Cambridge, found that deep ocean turbulence – the process that distributes heat, nutrients and carbon from the surface to the seafloor and back – affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifetime. However, the tools used to predict these effects and inform policy do not adequately represent this turbulence, or the speed at which it moves. The results are repo