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

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...