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University of Southampton Research Shows Southern Westerly Winds Drove Massive Peat Growth and Altered Global Carbon Cycling 15,000 Years Ago

Posted on 19, November 2025 by EuropaWire PR Editors

(IN BRIEF) A global team led by the University of Southampton has discovered that ancient peat bogs across the Southern Hemisphere expanded rapidly around 15,000 years ago due to abrupt shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds, a finding published in … Read the full press release →

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