{
  "id": 19204551,
  "title": "How the Southern Ocean helped fuel Earth's warmest climate in 65 million years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/how-the-southern-ocean-helped-fuel-earths-warmest-climate-in-65",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-09T19:20:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-southern-ocean-fuel-earth-warmest.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "About 50 million years ago, Earth experienced its warmest climate since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Global temperatures were more than 10°C higher than today, and atmospheric CO₂ concentrations reached around 1,600 parts per million. But what kept CO₂ levels so extraordinarily high for millions of years? An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}