Southern Ocean carbon sink filling up fast

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The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is so loaded with carbon dioxide that it can barely absorb any more, so more of the gas will stay in the atmosphere to warm up the planet, scientists report.

Human activity is the main culprit, says researcher Dr Corinne Le Quéré, who calls the finding very alarming.The phenomenon wasn't expected to be apparent for decades, says Le Quere, from the UK's University of East Anglia. "We thought we would be able to detect this only in the second half of this century, say 2050 or so," she says.



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