In February 2026 NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center adopted the Relative Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) to better characterize the ...

According to the EU climate service Copernicus, 2024 was the warmest year since weather records began, and the summer season was especially noteworthy. The changing climate associated with global ...

The oceans just keep getting hotter. According to new research from dozens of international scientists published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences early on Friday, the world’s oceans stored more ...

Ocean temperatures set a record high in 2025, according to a new study. The authors found that the heat content of the ocean increased by about 23 zettajoules between 2024 and 2025. That’s roughly the ...

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, ...

As the planet has warmed, the oceans have provided a critical buffer. A new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than ...