The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean on Earth, and the impacts will be felt for generations

  • Written by: Maurice Huguenin, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney
The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean on Earth, and the impacts will be felt for generationsShutterstock

Over the last 50 years, the oceans have been working in overdrive to slow global warming, absorbing about 40% of our carbon dioxide emissions, and over 90% of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere.

But as our research published today in Nature Communications has found, some oceans work harder than others.

We used a computational...

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