How more powerful Pacific cyclones may be fueling global warming
Stronger storms seem to be speeding up the Kuroshio Current, which ferries warm water north
![Super-typhoon Mangkhut](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/052820_cg_tropcyclone_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Super-typhoon Mangkhut (shown) swept past the Philippines on September 12, 2018, as a Category 5 storm. Collisions of such powerful tropical cyclones with spinning ocean whirlpools called eddies may be accelerating heat-carrying ocean currents like the Kuroshio.
Lauren Dauphine/NASA Earth Observatory (using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)