Nature, Published online: 04 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00324-2

The state of the North Atlantic Ocean during the last ice age remains debated. A pair of independent geochemical measures shows that a cold, salty and dense deep-ocean current, known as the North Atlantic Deep Water, continued to form and remained relatively warm, instead of being close to freezing as was assumed previously.

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