Ocean warming has quadrupled since the 1980s. Rising sea temperatures threaten marine life and coastal communities.

It also creates adverse effects for marine life, such as low-oxygen “dead zones” that choke out aquatic life. Much of the rise in ocean temperatures over the last two years is due to an El ...

Important state variables measured for parcels of water in the ocean are therefore temperature, which is related to the heat content, salinity, which is related to the amount of dissolved matter ...

Record breaking ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 may become the new normal in the coming decades. For 450 days between April 2023 and July 2024, average sea surface temperatures were higher than ...

These exceptionally strong winds were fueled by the collision of cold air and unusually warm ocean temperatures, which enabled the storm to intensify significantly as it developed. According to ...

A study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans ...