The world’s ocean currents are changing, particularly along Australia’s eastern seaboard and around Antarctica, creating more powerful eddies that could have far-reaching effects on what happens to the climate.

Australian researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes made these findings using satellite data from 1993-2020 that can detect changes in ocean levels down to a few centimetres.

Read the full story in the Sydney Morning Herald, which features commentary by Josué Martínez Moreno, a PhD candidate at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences and lead author of the report.