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 ...

Scientists are running out of extreme adjectives to describe the state of the world’s oceans. Global sea surface temperatures are spiking off the charts. The North Atlantic Ocean, in particular, has ...

This summer, the world's oceans have seen record-breaking warming. The global ocean is now — on average — hotter than ever before in recorded history. But the Gulf of Maine, which stretches from Cape ...

Warm conditions are expected to linger in the Caribbean Sea in the coming weeks, while the Southern Hemisphere also transitions out of winter and into warmer spring temperatures. All told, it may be ...

A multi-national team of scientists (China, USA, New Zealand, Italy, and France) analyze the temperature of the Earth annually. These scientists have found a fever that increases every year. For the ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic Detail page. Start with air-temperature records. Estimates of Earth’s average temperature have already hit new highs four times this ...

(CNN) — Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the ...