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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 generations

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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.

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