An international team of scientists has moved beyond just “scratching the surface,” to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Since this record-keeping began in the early 1980s—the other squiggly lines are previous years—the global average for the world’s ocean surfaces has oscillated seasonally between 19.7° and ...

A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in December 2022 and developed by NASA and France’s Centre National D’Etudes ...

El Niño, a pattern of warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator, ... Sea surface temperatures in the Gulf were 3.5 to 7 degrees warmer than average this winter.

Normal fluctuations in ocean climate patterns, combined with such continuous background warming, is largely what's now driving anomalously high, or extreme, sea surface temperatures around the globe.

The world’s oceans are warming at an unprecedented pace, with the surface temperature now rising more than 400% faster than it did in the 1980s. This rapid acceleration is not only breaking ...

In the image below we compare February sea surface temperatures with 2005, 2010, 2020 and 2024. The number of named storms each year is on the right side of the maps.

"Sea surface temperatures hit 97.7°F (36.5°C) in the Persian Gulf this past week," weather analyst Colin McCarthy wrote on X, ... NASA SOTO map of North America sea temperatures on August 26.

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of ...

The sea surface temperatures that fueled Hurricane Beryl are typically expected in September, not June. Human-caused climate change made these temperatures 100–400 times more likely.