Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/01/ocean-surface-temperatures-hit-a-record-high-for-june

 

US lawmakers fight Trump cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’

Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, joins Democrats in bid to stop dismantling of Ocean Observatories Initiative…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/ocean-monitoring-cuts-trump

 

‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/un-world-ocean-assessment-severe-stress-sea-level-rise-doubles-pollution-fishing-climate

 

Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system

Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/trump-administration-ocean-observatories-initiative

 

Oceans Are Warming? Senate Republicans Disagree.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6NMlWQHKU

 

Warming Oceans and Waterways Threaten a Key Human Protein Source – Mother Jones

Fish are getting smaller and dying at higher rates as they adapt to warming waters, researchers warn in a report released Thursday in the journal Science. This evolutionary change will reduce global fish yields by one-fifth under current warming predictions, and up to 30 percent in high-emissions scenarios…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/warming-oceans-waterways-threaten-protein-source-fish-evolution-adaptation-smaller-predator-prey/ 

 

Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans

Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a series of global spills, as plastic treaty talks continue in Geneva…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/12/nurdles-kerala-india-microplastic-pellets-pollution-fishing-environment-law

 

‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears

At the heart of this discussion is the scientific certainty that oceans will continue to rise for at least another century and a sense of injustice that those worst affected are among the least responsible for the climate crisis. The Alliance of Small Island States represents more than a quarter of the world's countries, but is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon emissions, most of which come from big industrialised countries in the global north. 

This has locked in an expansion of the world's oceans that is already under way and will accelerate in the second half of this century. Island maps are already being slowly redrawn and coastlines are increasingly threatened by storm surges. Within decades, archipelagos could lose outlying atolls that define national borders. A century from now – if not sooner – entire states could become uninhabitable, raising doubts about what will happen to their citizens, governments and resources...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/we-could-lose-our-status-as-a-state-what-happens-to-a-people-when-their-land-disappears

Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows

"We are getting more extreme weather because of the warming oceans and that has tremendous consequences all around the world."…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/oceans-were-the-hottest-ever-recorded-in-2022-analysis-shows

Our empty oceans: Scots team's research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life

The scientists warn there are only a few years left before the consequences become catastrophically clear when fish, whales and dolphins become extinct, with grave implications for the planet. In the report, the researchers from the Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation (Goes) state: "An environmental catastrophe is unfolding. We believe humanity could adapt to global warming and extreme weather changes. It is our view that humanity will not survive the extinction of most marine plants and animals."…

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/

Global heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years

…This means the oceans are overheated, increasingly gasping for breath – the volume of ocean waters completely depleted of oxygen has quadrupled since the 1960s – and becoming more hostile to life. Aquatic creatures such as clams, mussels and shrimp are unable to properly form shells due to the acidification of seawater...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/global-warming-risks-cataclysmic-mass-extinction-marine-life

The world’s oceans are speeding up, another mega-scale consequence of climate change - The Washington Post

New research finds an acceleration across 76 percent of the global ocean....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/05/worlds-oceans-are-speeding-up-another-mega-scale-consequence-climate-change/

Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise - BBC News

While nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50690995

New UN Climate Report: Earth’s Oceans Are in ‘Big Trouble’ - The Daily Beast

IPCC assessment says strain from climate change will soon affect the ability to harvest seafood, threatens hundreds of millions of people on the coasts.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/un-ocean-report-new-ipcc-report-warns-of-severe-damage-threat-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-humans-and-fish

New U.N. climate report: Massive change already here for world’s oceans and frozen regions - The Washington Post

A definitive new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds dangerous sea level rise and mass death of corals and other key ocean life has already been unleashed.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/25/new-un-climate-report-massive-change-already-here-worlds-oceans-frozen-regions/