Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies
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Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02681-4 Why extreme temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks — plus, how mitochondrial injections could treat vision loss.
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Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data finds The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average surface temperature was 21.
According to a report from The Washington Post, the world’s oceans have shattered a critical temperature threshold at a moment of intensifying climate extremes. As a powerful El Niño event gathers strength across the Pacific and marine heat waves blanket vast stretches of the planet’s waters, averag…
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02681-4 Why extreme temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks — plus, how mitochondrial injections could treat vision loss.
