Global sea surface temperatures in 2023–24 exceeded the previous record by an unprecedented margin. Observation-based statistical models and climate models suggest that such jumps in ocean ...

Sea Surface Temperatures are rising 4.5 times faster than 2019 levels due to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, ...

El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is known to trigger extreme weather events worldwide, from droughts and ...

These record-high values of 2024 sea surface temperatures and Ocean heat content continue to indicate unabated trends of global heating. Over the past 12 months, 138 countries have recorded their ...

As of late November, the average temperature was 1.64 degrees higher than the 1991 to 2020 average, surpassing the previous record of 1.29 degrees set in 2023. The average sea surface temperature ...

Increasing sea surface temperatures are altering species distributions, disrupting food webs, and changing how pathogens move through marine systems. Warmer waters have been associated with higher ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, record high temperatures for three years running was the first time that has occurred since the agency began tracking surface sea temperatures in 1982.