January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address ...

A new study has revealed that ocean warming is accelerating at an alarming rate, increasing more than four times faster than ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living ...

According to scientists at the University of Reading, the global mean sea surface temperature (GMSST) is rising 400 percent ...

CHENNAI: Say ‘global warming’ and most of us would think of wildfires, droughts or glaciers melting. Seas and oceans are ...

January 2025 sets new heat record globally, sparking debate among scientists on acceleration of global warming.

The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggesting global warming in general has undergone a ...

Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

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