A marine heat wave has been building in the ocean surrounding the UK during an exceptionally warm and dry spring. In other ...

On April 1st, average global sea-surface temperatures reached 21.1°C (70.0°F). The new record is more than half a degree above the global average between 1982 and 2011 (see chart). Sea-surface ...

To understand just how unusual this is, take a look at the chart below. The wave of squiggly lines represents the sea surface temperature, averaged across the North Atlantic, from 1981 to now ...

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Ocean temperatures are at or near their peak and ocean surface temperatures are “off the chart,” since rocketing ... came together to push land and sea temperatures to new record highs.

As you can see from the chart’s record of past years, March is normally when average sea surface temperatures start declining. That’s because the Southern Hemisphere has transitioned from ...

In a new analysis covering nearly 30 years of data on turtle movements, sea surface temperatures, and seawater chlorophyll levels, Stanford scientists found that the ... Earth, being 71% covered ...

Helene very likely did this too, though scientists have been unable to retrieve some of the latest data on sea-surface temperatures because Helene knocked out a key federal facility, the National ...

The Mediterranean Sea reached its highest surface temperature with a daily median of 28.9 degrees Celsius on Thursday, according to Spanish researchers, topping a previous record set last month.