Each spring, the Black Sea shifts from deep indigo to a milky, swirling turquoise. The color comes from coccolithophores, ...

Our newest animations track changes in sea surface temperatures over the most recent 90 days.

With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb". Oceans absorb ...

New oceanic research provides clear evidence of a human "fingerprint" on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the seasonal cycle amplitude of sea surface ...

The surface ocean temperatures in waters near the Japanese archipelago reached a record high from June to February for the ...

Tropical climate variability, including the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole and Atlantic Niño/Niña variability, has long governed global interannual climate fluctuations.

The Siberian Arctic Ocean links river runoff, sea ice, and Pacific–Atlantic exchanges, yet the drivers of its circulation variability remain poorly constrained. Using multi-decadal satellite altimetry ...

The Earth’s oceans have never been warmer. Every day since late March, the world’s average sea surface temperature has been well above the previous highest mark for that day. And there will be ripple ...

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), the EU's Copernicus ...

In the past few weeks, sea-surface temperatures in some parts of the North Atlantic Ocean have soared to record heights. The anomalous warming is occurring in a large swath stretching almost one-third ...